PaigePrier's 100-word story for October 31, 2025

PaigePrier wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on October 31, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

The whole place stunk of gruel. Which was, of course, the point. Such high concept restaurants were rare, and did require a ghost kitchen to succeed, but this was the perfect atmosphere for the SomeMore restaurant experience. The investors were utterly charmed, thinking of all of the Dickensian ghosts who now would be able to haunt the dark web with their newfound enterprise. It was a bit literary, but original, paying triple digits per bowl of anachronistic stew. Poverty theatre at luxury prices had always worked well, and this would even do some good, if it worked as we planned.

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