Cheater's 100-word story for May 5, 2025

Cheater wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on May 5, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Joy can arrive in unexpected forms—sharp, vivid, and untamed. It crackles at the edges of monotony, daring you to feel fully, to taste every moment fully. Life isn’t always sweet; sometimes it stings, sometimes it sears. But even pain has its colors, its rhythms, its dance. The most unforgettable moments come with contrast—heat and calm, bitterness and bloom. Somewhere between chaos and harmony, the soul stretches, grows, ignites. Laughter under a blazing sky, the thrill of something new, the jolt of sensation that reminds you you're alive. Not everything must be gentle to be beautiful. Some beauty burns.

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