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Season 3, Episode 5: You've Really Blown It This Time

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2026/10/05

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 5, season 3, for Monday the fifth of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:You've Really Blown It This Timeby Elizabeth GuiltThey're trying to reach something behind the sofa. Their back is turned, their attention elsewhere.Only for a moment. A moment's enough.I snatch the thing from their waistband, the metal still warm from the pressure of their back. The

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00:02:01

Season 3, Episode 4: The Plumbers' Merchant at the...

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2026/10/04

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 4, season 3, for Sunday the fourth of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:The Plumbers' Merchant at the Intersection of Everywhereby Elizabeth GuiltThree Ganymede joints? Certainly, love, is that half-inch or twelve mil? Right you are. Do you want parallel-threaded or tapered? Clockwise or counter?Freddie! Fetch the lady three counterclock imperial taper

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00:01:56

Season 3, Episode 3: Hedge Witch

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2026/10/03

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 3, season 3, for Saturday the third of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Hedge Witchby Elizabeth GuiltShe was a vile old bag, a pile of cardigans wrapped around a core of hatred. We heard her muttering in her tiny garden, forever fiddling with herbs and plaiting shapes out of larch twigs and rags. We should have arrested her. The stories from the war

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00:01:40

Season 3, Episode 2: You Aren't There

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2026/10/02

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 2, season 3, for Friday the second of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is:You Aren't Thereby Elizabeth GuiltGeorge fiddles with his dinner, and thinks about the Great War. How soldiers came home on leave, over a century ago, and found their families drunk on stories of glory and bravery. No-one wanted to hear that the fighting was muddy and brutal,

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00:02:01

Season 3, Episode 1: Refuge

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2026/10/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober Season 3. This is episode 1, for Thursday the first of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Refugeby Elizabeth GuiltI never liked the snow globe, it always seemed creepy. Tiny figures, trapped in their glass shell.Some days there were just a few kids playing in the snow. Sometimes a dozen. I tried not to count them. The snow globe had stood on Nan's mantelpiece - then

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00:02:20

Season 2, Bonus Episode 11: Distraction Tactics

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2026/09/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of September, 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Distraction Tactics---"Sculpins? My study. Now!"Master Board swept past, his gown trailing a wake of angry sparks. Sculpins scuttled in behind him. Words escaped past the slammed door."Disgraceful behaviour... Trusted... Expensive... Phoenix wings indeed..."When the Master

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00:01:38

Season 2, Bonus Episode 10: Missing Persons

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2026/08/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of August, 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Missing Persons---A woman? Down there? You leave her be. Someone dies in the water, there's plenty of creatures there to strip away flesh so the bones tumble to the bottom. A body drifting? arms trailing, hair swirling? that's bad news. You think the things with teeth weren't

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00:02:10

Season 2, Bonus Episode 9: The Rules Are There For A...

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2026/07/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of July, 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: The Rules Are There For A Reason---There was a tearing noise and there I was again. Slap-bang in the middle of some little scrote's chalk circle. It's always teenagers. They find an old book, think it'd be funny...No-one expects it to work. They're so surprised; they muff the binding

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00:02:14

Season 2, Bonus Episode 8: Generational

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2026/06/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of June, 2026. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Generational---She looked at me, disappointed."Don't you want to?""Of course I do! But... I need permission.""From who? You're an adult!""The Paterfamilias.""Ha, the Paterf... wait, you're serious? You still have one?"My great-great-grandfather wanted his dynasty to last forever. During

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00:02:08

Season 2, Bonus Episode 7: Anything From the Canteen...

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2026/05/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of May, 2026. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Anything From The Canteen Sheet?---He lunges when it slides under the door. The first week, still used to shops and restaurant menus, he sneered at the crooked page. He mocked his cellmate's eager interest - and got punched for it.Now, he's the same. Any break in the grinding tedium is

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Season 2, Bonus Episode 6: Everywhere

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2026/04/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of April, 2026. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Everywhere---There was a bang and, too late, a screech of brakes."Shit! A deer, we hit a deer.""What?""A deer! You saw that, right?"Dave was five or six whiskeys down, his voice rising, panicking. I'd seen blond hair, plastered by rain against a pale face.For weeks afterwards, I trawled

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Season 2, Bonus Episode 5: Yanked

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2026/03/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of March, 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Not Again---Mason wakes up, a familiar pounding in his head. Not again. They'd only had six weeks this time. He looks wearily over the furnishings. 1800s. Probably Britain. He creeps through the house, finds clothes that mean he won't stand out, takes a couple of things to pawn, and

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00:01:42

Season 2, Bonus Episode 4: Someone Needs Looking After

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2026/02/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of February, 2026. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Someone Needs Looking After---"Evelyn! Come in!" Nan waves her visitor down the corridor, and keeps up her half of the conversation."I know! Awful out there... Yeah... That's February for you..."Nan's delusions are getting worse. But no-one actually comes round now, and these

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00:02:08

Season 2, Bonus Episode 3: January You

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2026/01/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of January, 2026 and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: January You---Join the gym. Run every morning. Go vegan. Two yoga classes. Read fifty new novels this year. Drink less. Do dry January! Learn Spanish. Get up early. Journal. Marie Kondo the spare bedroom, the kitchen, the whole house. Maybe try paleo?Maybe not paleo. Is vegan paleo

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00:01:59

Season 2, Bonus Episode 2: Don't Wake Christmas

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2025/12/30

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the thirtieth of December, 2025, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Don't Wake Christmas---Christmas lies glutted with turkey and mince pies, asleep behind the sofa. A child shrieks with glee, still delighted with a new toy, and Christmas stirs, muttering half-words of whiskey and late-night cocoa.A parent begins to gather up the discarded

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00:01:53

Season 2, Bonus Episode 1: Last Resort

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2025/12/01

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of December, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Last Resort---Hayley knows it's there. She's known for years, ever since that stupid night when they drank too much vodka, lit loads of candles and slurred Latin incantations. She felt it crawl into her.Anthony insisted the salt circle would keep them safe - perhaps it did. They woke

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00:02:01

Season 2, Episode 31: The Singing of Drowned Sailors

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2025/10/31

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 31, season 2, for Friday the thirty-first of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:The Singing of Drowned Sailorsby Elizabeth Guilt---Me dad always told the stories. Strange calms in dark storms, and the hush that fell during the wildest winds."You keep yer head down, lad, and pay them no mind. They'll lure you away, drag you under to join their songs."I was

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Season 2, Episode 30: Peace and Love. Mostly.

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2025/10/30

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 30, season 2, for Thursday the thirtieth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:Peace and Love. Mostly.by Elizabeth Guilt---Ancient? Haha, no, not at all! Built in the 60s. Yes, it is pretty convincing. Oh, just a vanity project - a local man got really into ley lines and decided to find one on his own land. Oriented the circle using dowsing rods, would you

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Season 2, Episode 29: It Was Supposed To Be a Joke

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2025/10/29

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 29, season 2, for Wednesday the twenty-ninth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:It Was Meant To Be a Jokeby Elizabeth Guilt---Typical slow Thursday, and a short man slunk up to the counter."I'm here about the poster."Great. Steven's latest hobby is designing ornate prank - obviously prank - flyers."Oh? Need a unicorn groomed, do you?""No. I want to

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Season 2, Episode 28: The Lady of the Floor

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2025/10/28

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 28, season 2, for Tuesday the twenty-eighth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:We'll Have None Of That Hereby Elizabeth Guilt---I opened the vacpack of mineral oil, and thumbed a smear across the floor."Lady."Conversation stopped. My new teammates burst out laughing."What?""You don't...""He still thinks..."The foreman leaned over. "Look, kid. We're

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