PaigePrier's 100-word story for October 9, 2025

PaigePrier wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on October 9, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Ever since the fashion police came to power, the public feared the day of another faction making their neighborhood into something more uncomfortable than business casual (and those unfortunate souls who lived where avant garde was the law mostly never left home, as weather might prove fatal to them.) Our sneeds would save us, we thought, and net us access to almost any other place, since they passed (with minor adjustments) almost any dress code. So we began confidently making our way to Fashion Haus, with our petition, for we feared for our ability to get through winter without coats.

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