Drabbletober

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 By by 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...

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 Be by Elizabeth Guilt --- Hersh's eyelids flutter, hands clenching and twisting. Hersh is - allegedly - the best, a hot-shot consultant, but it's bee...

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 Legacy by 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 alwa...

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 DNA by 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...

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 Secrets by 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...

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 You by Elizabeth Guilt --- As a kid, it was always her brother. The threat was explicit - and followed up with physical demonstrations. The same threat hid, discree...

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 Supper by 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...

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 Up by Elizabeth Guilt --- Grandmother always gave interviews from her chaise longue. She reclined gracefully, surrounded by framed playbills and phot...

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 Guilt I'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-co...

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 Catch by Elizabeth Guilt When 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 h...

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 Lost by Elizabeth Guilt When Kate ran, she ran hard, leaving behind husband, job, Friday yoga, and Bach cantatas on Wednesdays. Eventually, there was almost no land...

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 Spectre by Elizabeth Guilt On Saturdays, Bill spent longer than usual polishing the countertop. The Lemon Spectres, exclusive to the hotel, looked their best agains...

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 Feature by Elizabeth Guilt The three-field system was a way farmers grew food long ago. Amelia, we don't do that here. They u...

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: Choice by 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 sh...

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-Dazzle by Elizabeth Guilt "You do know what 'Resistance fighter' means?" "Don't really need makeup, do we, lads?" "Your eyeshadow's crap, anyway." So she...

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...

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. W...

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. Whe...

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 Advice Simon once told me that you forget things when you walk through doors. I laughed, but he was right. I started writing grocery...

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...

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 an...

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 Future Peter 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 eyehole...

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...

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 Tuxedo They 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 dr...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 28, for Monday the 28th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Breaking the Rainbow I remember him in kindergarten, throwing stones at the sky. Toddlers are all, at heart, destructive. But he asked strange questions when I taught weather systems in f...