Daily story, August 25, 2025

Her chain of office was beginning to annoy her. Not because it was heavy and cumbersome and knocked against her collarbones, although it did. It was the hack symbolism of it. The symbol of power is itself a burden? How clever. She could have borne even that, but she was learning that she didn’t really have any power at all. Just the burden. She lifted the chain over her head, and wrapped it around her fist.