magisternihil's 100-word story for October 17, 2025

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on October 17, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Nadia loved visiting her grandfather at the vineyard. He was always so silly, so fun to watch. This one time he declared birds were attacking his grapes. He ran up and down the rows waving a broom, shouting at them to stop trying to eat his profits. He looked so silly and red-faced when he finally stopped. And then another time he spent an hour pretending to try to get the old shell of a van to run. The words he used when the engine wouldn’t turn over! She didn’t know he wasn’t pretending. Her parents didn’t tell her everything.

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