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Season 2, Episode 27: All Medical Staff Should Be...

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2025/10/27

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 27, season 2, for Monday the twenty-seventh of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:All Medical Staff Should Be Briefed In Local Legendsby Elizabeth Guilt---Helen had her coat on when the junior tapped on her door."Doctor? Sorry. The little girl... Her broken legs... They're...""They're what?""They're... Mending. In huge solid lumps.""Where was she

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00:01:40

Season 2, Episode 26: Making a Myth

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2025/10/26

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 26, season 2, for Sunday the twenty-sixth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Making a Mythby Elizabeth Guilt---Mara sits where she's told, and the engineer places the cap on her newly-shaved head. He tinkers briefly, and they all come swaying sinuously to life. The cap's sensors read tiny movements in Mara's scalp muscles, track signals from her optic

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00:01:47

Season 2, Episode 25: Oooh, Look, Breadcrumbs!

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2025/10/25

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 25, season 2, for Saturday the twenty-fifth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Oooh, Look, Breadcrumbs!by Elizabeth Guilt---I was jamming my earbud back in when the world stopped.His cloak was grey, mostly, with a greasy green-purple sheen. His boney face was pointed. In his hand, a sharp... Well, I didn't want to think about that."You're lucky," he said,

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00:01:57

Season 2, Episode 24: Day's Orders

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2025/10/24

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 24, season 2, for Friday the twenty-fourth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Day's Ordersby Elizabeth Guilt---"Sir!""What's that?""Sir, Duty Shitehawk reporting for orders, Sir!""More like it. Roost easy.""Sir.""Today's roster: harbour wall. Principal lookout, ten till three. Keep your eyes peeled, we've had reports of Morris dancers in the area. Our

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00:01:36

Season 2, Episode 23: Ice Cubs

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2025/10/23

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 23, season 2, for Thursday the twenty-third of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Ice Cubsby Elizabeth Guilt---Ice cubs crawled from the bay this morning. It's been a decade - we used to see them most years.We've set up the perimeter. People will ignore it. Ice cubs are not bears - but they're not not bears, either. They glitter, like diamonds. They're

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00:02:04

Season 2, Episode 22: Same Old, Same Old

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2025/10/22

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 22, season 2, for Wednesday the twenty-second of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Same Old, Same Oldby Elizabeth Guilt---Trudy wakes up on her birthday, and groans. Fifty! She makes her morning tea, and wonders how this happened. Fifty? She's never been to Venice. Never ridden a motorbike. Never eaten alfalfa sprouts.What even is an alfalfa sprout? An hour

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00:01:54

Season 2, Episode 21: The Light of Your Life

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2025/10/21

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 21, season 2, for Tuesday the twenty-first of October 2025, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:The Light of your Lifeby Elizabeth Guilt---I only remember two things from visiting my Auntie: her beautiful lamp and the way my uncle would sit, inert, mouth constantly twitching. A stroke, I guess, but no-one told kids anything back then.Benny visited the day after I

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00:01:51

Season 2, Episode 20: Small God

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2025/10/20

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 20, season 2, for Monday the twentieth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Small Godby Elizabeth Guilt---The thing you remember about him isn't how he died. It isn't his bass-playing - did he play bass? - or his failed businesses. It certainly isn't the three lawsuits that were pending when his car spun off the road and over the cliff.You remember the

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00:02:00

Season 2, Episode 19: The Way Forward Is Back

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2025/10/19

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 19, season 2, for Sunday the nineteenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:The Way Forward Is Backby Elizabeth Guilt---The man stalks around, wand in hand. He stops and throws his arms wide. "Here! I sense a foul presence."Kimberley stares at her feet. She doesn't feel foul.She leaves before the man has lit his candles. It was her house, once, but she's

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00:01:44

Season 2, Episode 18: Journey To A New You

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2025/10/18

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 18, season 2, for Saturday the eighteenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Journey To A New Youby Elizabeth Guilt---The train screams in, and she grips her ticket. Passengers crane to read the station sign. It says Discombobulate. Only one person stumbles off, giggling, and the platform-crowd surges aboard.Doors hiss closed. Her stomach drops as they

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00:01:35

Season 2, Episode 17: The Long Viewing

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2025/10/17

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 17, season 2, for Friday the seventeenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:The Long Viewingby Elizabeth Guilt---"I'm freezing.""Yeah.""And my feet are soaked. Can you light a fire?""Not in wet woodland, in a foot of snow. No.""But you're outdoorsy, don't you have waterproof matches or something?""Sure, when I know I'm going hiking. Today, I've got some

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00:02:04

Season 2, Episode 16: Two Recipes Found in my...

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2025/10/16

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 16, season 2, for Thursday the sixteenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Two Recipes Found in my Grandmother's Cupboard After Her Death, South Coast of Cornwall, Englandby Elizabeth Guilt---The LighthouseOne measure of good brandy. If unavailable, substitute whisky. But not rum. Never rum.Add chopped fruit - strawberries if you can find them. Or

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00:01:38

Season 2, Episode 15: You Do What You Have To To Get By

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2025/10/15

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 15, season 2, for Wednesday the fifteenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:You Do What You Have To To Get Byby Elizabeth Guilt---Bella put the remains of the ham in the cellar, and tidied crumbs from the table. Life was easier, now, and she was grateful.The man who came to the door had a kind smile, but guilty eyes."Anthony?""Don't you remember me?""You

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00:01:41

Season 2, Episode 14: What Fools These Mortals Be

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2025/10/14

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 14, season 2, for Tuesday the fourteenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:What Fools These Mortals Beby Elizabeth Guilt---Hersh's eyelids flutter, hands clenching and twisting. Hersh is - allegedly - the best, a hot-shot consultant, but it's been hours since he passed wetware security and jammed cables into his spine. And the systems are still down

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00:01:39

Season 2, Episode 13: Grandmother's Legacy

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2025/10/13

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 13, season 2, for Monday the thirteenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Grandmother's Legacyby Elizabeth Guilt---"Should get a few for the table...""Think that might be Chippendale..."The lump in Amy's throat swells. She hides, where she always did, in the dining room - though they'll be in here soon enough, bickering over the silver.She opens the

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00:01:48

Season 2, Episode 12: It’s Not Just About Your DNA

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2025/10/12

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 12, season 2, for Sunday the twelfth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:It's Not Just About Your DNAby Elizabeth Guilt---I peer into the shaving mirror. That spot's got larger; it's now an angry red dash across my forehead. I poke at it. The skin breaks, with a thin, hard glint.This used to happen to Dad. A bar fight, he said. Someone shoved him headfirst

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00:01:49

Season 2, Episode 11: The Eater of Secrets

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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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00:02:16

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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00:01:45

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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