JKWriter's 100-word story for October 30, 2025

JKWriter wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on October 30, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Two shiny black eyes spied the couple on the balcony talking quietly. It tilted it's head back and forth listening curiously to their soft and serious tones. The woman was fair haired and freckled...the man dark hair with pristine mahogany skin. Both were lovely. His inquisitive little head cocked to the other side again observing the moments between the two. Occasionally he caught a word or two that he had heard before, but none of it made sense to him. Had they been talking of crusts of bread or sunflower seeds he'd have known they were speaking about him.

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