queenjenjen's 100-word story for November 3, 2025

queenjenjen wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on November 3, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

It’s Art, they told me.Seriously? Rows of empty canisters take up a full wall in the city’s most coveted gallery; utterly mundane if not for the splashes of colour escaping from broken necks. Hang me now. Reds and yellows and pinks and blues - the colours of a rainbow that flatlined the moment its smile had been stretched out into that first line. Now here we are. I look straight ahead but my blank expression really hits the spot. I know, right? they say, appreciating the nothing I give for free more than anything I got from my $40 ticket.

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