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Drabbletober

Elizabeth Guilt

The podcast of tiny speculative fiction. Brand new drabbles (stories of exactly 100 words) every day during October.

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Season 2, Episode 11: The Eater of Secrets

Drabbletober ·

2025/10/11

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 11, season 2, for Saturday the eleventh of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:The Eater of Secretsby Elizabeth Guilt---Mrs Tindall makes them stay behind, because no-one will admit breaking the window. When Hannah gets home the house is shaking. Her mum slumps, despairing. "I've nothing left. You go up."Hannah climbs the attic stairs, slowly, and whispers

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Season 2, Episode 10: I'm Bigger Than You

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2025/10/10

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 10, season 2, for Friday the tenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:I'm Bigger Than Youby Elizabeth Guilt---As a kid, it was always her brother. The threat was explicit - and followed up with physical demonstrations. The same threat hid, discreetly, behind her teachers' words. Later, it threaded through drunken conversations in bars, in unwanted offers

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Season 2, Episode 9: First Time At Supper

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2025/10/09

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 9, season 2, for Thursday the ninth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:First Time At Supperby Elizabeth Guilt---"Where is your tray?"I didn't know I was supposed to have one. Everyone else is already eating.She points, furiously. I scurry to the counter. I pick up a bowl. A spoon.The server stares at me, and I don't know what to say."Please?"A grey

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00:02:03

Season 2, Episode 8: It's Amazing What They Pick Up

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2025/10/08

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 8, season 2, for Wednesday the eighth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:It's Amazing What They Pick Upby Elizabeth Guilt---Grandmother always gave interviews from her chaise longue. She reclined gracefully, surrounded by framed playbills and photographs, hands stroking the sleek, velvet upholstery.When the local vicar called, grandmother received him,

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00:01:46

Season 2, Episode 7: Heart. Beat.

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2025/10/07

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 7, season 2, for Tuesday the seventh of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Heart. Beat.by Elizabeth GuiltI'll make coffee before I reply to that email.No, we won't consider a reunion. Granger is still dead.They used to suggest getting some up-and-coming kid to fill in, or using drum machines. Now it's AI-powered avatars of Granger. The band was the four of

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00:01:57

Season 2, Episode 6: Safety Catch

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2025/10/06

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 6, season 2, for Monday the sixth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Safety Catchby Elizabeth GuiltWhen the invasion came, we ran. We tried to settle, we ran further, we hid, we fought through snow, and ran again. Most of us survived. We tried to help each other, tried to reassure ourselves we'd be safe one day. "What even is safe?" asked Asha, bitterly,

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00:01:48

Season 2, Episode 5: The Choir of the Lost

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2025/10/05

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 5, season 2, for Sunday the fifth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:The Choir of the Lostby Elizabeth GuiltWhen Kate ran, she ran hard, leaving behind husband, job, Friday yoga, and Bach cantatas on Wednesdays. Eventually, there was almost no land left and she slumped on a bench. Her tears blurred the poster advertising a singing group. Kate - with

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00:01:50

Season 2, Episode 4: The Lemon Spectre

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2025/10/04

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 4, season 2, for Saturday the fourth of October 2025, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:The Lemon Spectreby Elizabeth GuiltOn Saturdays, Bill spent longer than usual polishing the countertop. The Lemon Spectres, exclusive to the hotel, looked their best against the black marble - that faint luminescence, that slight haze clinging to the rim of the glass. The

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00:02:09

Season 2, Episode 3: We Need to Increase the Budget...

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2025/10/03

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 3, season 2, for Friday the third of October 2025, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:We Need To Increase The Budget For The School Water Featureby Elizabeth GuiltThe three-field system was a way farmers grew food long ago. Amelia, we don't do that here.They used three fields: one for...Amelia! Don't wave that about!One for spring crops, one for autumn crops...Amelia,

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00:01:53

Season 2, Episode 2: Choice

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2025/10/02

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 2, season 2, for Thursday the second of October 2025, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Choiceby Elizabeth Guilt"Expect the unexpected," read Melissa. "What does yours say?""Happy news is on the way. Oh god, I hope so. Anna, you haven't opened yours."Anna shrugged. "I don't like them much."Melissa laughed. "Literally no-one likes them. They're just for the message

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00:02:03

Season 2, Episode 1: Putting on the Razzle-Dazzle

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2025/10/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober Season 2. This is episode 1, for Wednesday the first of October 2025, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Putting on the Razzle-Dazzleby Elizabeth Guilt"You do know what 'Resistance fighter' means?""Don't really need makeup, do we, lads?""Your eyeshadow's crap, anyway."So she explained - skipping the details of light-reflecting concealers, shimmering contour powders, AI

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Bonus Episode 6: "Whispers"

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2025/09/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of September, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Whispers---When my mother died, she gifted me a whisper. Her voice threads through my life.You can do anything. I inherited hers, too; the whisper she got from her mother. A woman is as good as any man.You can do anything. They raised me after my father left. They were relieved

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Bonus Episode 5: "Living on the Face"

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2025/08/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of August, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Living on the Face---I stumbled blearily down to the water's edge. Which wasn't there. My eyes snapped open. There should be... shoreline. Waves. A line of uneven wooden posts. We tied our boat up there. So did every other family. The lake couldn't be... gone. I ran."Don't be

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Bonus Episode 4: “Rapprochement”

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2025/07/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of July, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Rapprochement---Everyone remembers Gracie Carousel's wartime radio broadcasts. They cheered us, gave us heart. Even when her husband disappeared, she kept us hoping. Every day.When Occupation ended, Gracie emerged from hiding, to universal acclaim. Then a newspaper finally found her

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00:01:55

Bonus Episode 3: "How I Live My Life According To My...

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2025/06/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of June, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: How I Live My Life According To My Friend Simon's AdviceSimon once told me that you forget things when you walk through doors. I laughed, but he was right. I started writing grocery lists in the kitchen. When travelling, I packed toiletries in the bathroom.At work, I preferred to talk to

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00:01:55

Bonus Episode 2: "Tea for the Dawn"

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2025/05/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of May, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Tea for the Dawn.Dorothy opens the front door, and sighs. The other cottages - new thatch, smart paint, tightly-locked gates - are all dark at the windows. The village green is empty, and quiet.Seventy years ago, there'd been crowds; everyone singing and cheering.Sixty years ago, she'd

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00:01:53

Bonus Episode 1: "Bruisetown"

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2025/03/28

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, released because I felt like it. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Bruisetown.The town probably had a name on the map, but everyone called it Bruisetown. Its residents were pallid; blue stains across their cheeks, bruises ringing their necks and wrists and sullen eyes. Linger too long on the road, and mottled grey crept across the backs of your

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00:01:57

Episode 31: "The Ghost of the Future"

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2024/10/31

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 31, for Thursday the 31st of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: The Ghost of the FuturePeter shucks off the hated school trousers and shirt, and takes more comfortable clothes from the very back of the wardrobe. A double bedsheet, with neat eyeholes, completes the outfit.Arms raised, the ghost checks carefully in the bathroom mirror."Going to the

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00:01:23

Episode 30: "The Gauntlet"

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2024/10/30

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 30, for Wednesday the 30th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: The Gauntlet"Don't put that on, love. Nana says it's cursed. Or bad luck, anyway.""Don't be such a fusspot! It's just an old glove."She pulled the tatty old leather over her fingers. Her hand shot to her throat, pinning her to the wall.I screamed, leaping to my feet and reaching for her

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Episode 29: "Security, in a Tuxedo"

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2024/10/29

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 29, for Tuesday the 29th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Security, in a TuxedoThey roared into the city. Literally - the cheapest transport in from the airport was on lion-back. The bars were raucous. Sinuous snake dancers, monkeys pouring drinks with hands and feet, bunnies lounging lasciviously across laps. Bears kept the tourists under control

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