JKWriter's 100-word story for October 27, 2025

JKWriter wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on October 27, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

He stopped in front of a massive puddle in the parking lot as he saw his own reflection in the shimmering, oil slicked, rippling surface. Much like the visage in the water, he found himself reflecting on his life lived. Nothing he has ever imagined in childhood or adolescence had found its way into the life he was living in this very moment. He was on the cusp of his fortieth birthday...decades had passed him by. A marriage, children...a divorce. Some days it seemed like all twenty years and others...merely minutes in a day. Where'd time go?

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