queenjenjen's 100-word story for November 1, 2025

queenjenjen wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on November 1, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

So that’s where it happened. Doesn’t look like much, I know, but the minute it hit, shockwaves were felt as far away as the malting factory. They were only tiny ripples at first but then Old Weaver came out of his shack, cursing and blinding at me which I very much deserved, but point-blank refusing to just get in my boat and come into shore. Why the fuck would he do that, he rightly asked, when I’d just single-handedly demolished his one lifeline back to shore? He did not like my suggestion one bit that he buy himself a boat.

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