Drabbletober

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 fi...

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......

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 c...

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 voi...

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...

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...

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....

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 Christm...

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....

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 Sailors by Elizabeth Guilt --- Me dad always told the stories. Strange calms in dark storms, and the hush that fell during the wildest winds.  "Y...

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  go...

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 Joke by Elizabeth Guilt --- Typical slow Thursday, and a short man slunk up to the counter.  "I'm here about the poster." Great. Steven's latest...

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 Here by Elizabeth Guilt --- I opened the vacpack of mineral oil, and thumbed a smear across the floor. "Lady." Conversation stopped. My new teammat...

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 Legends by Elizabeth Guilt --- Helen had her coat on when the junior tapped on her door. "Doctor? Sorry. The little girl... He...

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 Myth by 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 sinu...

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 b...

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 Orders by Elizabeth Guilt --- "Sir!" "What's that?" "Sir, Duty Shitehawk reporting for orders, Sir!" "More like it. Roost easy." "Sir." "Today's roster: harbour wall....

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 Cubs by 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 ig...

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 Old by 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...

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 Life by Elizabeth Guilt --- I only remember two things from visiting my Auntie: her beautiful lamp and the way my uncle would sit, inert, mouth consta...

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 God by 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'...

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 Back by 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...

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 You by Elizabeth Guilt --- The train screams in, and she grips her ticket. Passengers crane to read the station sign. It says Discombobulate . Only one pers...

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 Viewing by 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 outd...

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, England by Elizabeth Guilt --- The Lighthouse One measure of good brandy. If unavaila...