joeislove's 100-word story for October 24, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on October 24, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

The nights grow long and the veil draws thin. From her window she watches and waits, filled with the feeling of becoming present and whole, as she does each year. Longing, lusting for the delicious freedom that night will bring. The veil drawn back and the border between her world and the mortal realms exposed. She can taste it. It tastes like the warm blood that once filled the chalice on her altar. In those days she only had to appear and drink. No one brings the offerings now. Not for many years. She smiles, looking forward to the hunt.

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