Drabbletober

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 27, for Sunday the 27th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Flamingo Bread Whenever she talked about her childhood, Gran always mentioned flamingo bread, the best cake in the world. When she died, we found the recipe tucked away in her bookshelf....

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 26, for Saturday the 26th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: The Handler I could hear the fighting from outside. It was one of the hard cases, a small one. It always is, all entitlement and "I shouldn't be in here" attitude. There were snarls and...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 25, for Friday the 25th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: 5 Phoenix Court As Mara leaves the station, she can smell smoke. She hears the sirens before she's halfway up the hill. She checks the little group huddled on the pavement. The Barries, t...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 24, for Thursday the 24th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Recognition My neighbour was always odd. Harmless, but odd; staring with a strange intensity whenever we crossed paths. Until he started screaming. Every night, for hours, his howls dri...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 23, for Wednesday the 23rd of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Unicorns When the barriers crumbled between our worlds, everyone went exploring. Especially the motorcyclists. On whining two-strokes and beefy Harleys, they tore through the winding r...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 22, for Tuesday the 22nd of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Yo Ho Ho The last visitor trudged reluctantly into the lashing rain, and Nigel rolled down the shutters. He rested his forehead against the window, enjoying the brief moments of peace. T...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 21, for Monday the 21st of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Great New Ones There'd been trouble at Mill 3 for weeks. Rumours, mutterings, machine operators thinking they could bargain with me for an extra penny or another break. I sent men to brea...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 20, for Sunday the 20th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Afternoon Out "Oh my god, oh my god, Bob's gone!" "What?" "He's gone! Just like that! Gone! Oh my god!" Harry snapped his pincers frantically. "Calm down, calm down. He'll be back." "He's...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 19, for Saturday the 19th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Skirmish The war ended, and neither side truly won. The farmers brought in the harvest, and worshipped the Autumn God, just as they always had done. The colonists stayed. They settled i...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 18, for Friday the 18th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Jump! "Jump!" She clambered onto the windowsill, her small fingers clutching the frame. When she looked down, she whimpered. "I don't want to, Billy." "Hold my hand. We'll jump together."...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 17, for Thursday the 17th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Sudden Autumn Lily loved the oak tree in their new house's garden. After a day of customer complaints swamping her optical feeds, connecting with nature was so important. Stepping outsi...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 16, for Wednesday the 16th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Firedogs The feast-frenzied guests waited restlessly for the firedogs to dance against the midsummer sky. My lord, fury covering his fear, sent us to the cave. "Prick them out!" No red...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 15, for Tuesday the 15th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story, which today contains a minor swear, is: Gunpowder and Wine My grandfather refused to go near the bar. "Too many damn idiots," he said, of the tourists who poured in. They bought overpriced jugs of grit...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 14, for Monday the 14th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Like a Bear Good morning, welcome to Sicut Urso. You're right on time. You've been eating well, I take it? What's that? Pasta for every meal? Ideal, sir, glad to hear it. Ha ha, yes, I'm...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 13, for Sunday the 13th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Duty of Care Adam always wanted to be a doctor. He wanted to help anyone who was in trouble. His teachers laughed, given his grades and his slow reading. Then the apocalypse came, and sud...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 12, for Saturday the 12th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: We're Adults Now We were around ten, I guess. The summer was hot, bakingly hot, and no-one noticed us building a spaceship behind the greenhouse. We used old plywood, the gears from Emi...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 11, for Friday the 11th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: These Bills Don't Pay Themselves Cursing people is easy. Anyone can do it. Removing curses, now. That's a skill. Learned it from my grandmother and I'm good at it. No-one who comes throug...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 10, for Thursday the 10th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Would You Like A Flake With That? The kids tumbled giddily from the car. "Let's get ice creams!" Dad bought 99s for the family, and they raced onto the beach. Elderly ladies strolled al...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 9, for Wednesday the 9th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Set Fair Ella turned her back. "I'm not a child any more. I'm not stupid!" Steve laid gentle hands on her six-year-old shoulders. "I know, love." He stared at the horizon. In the milky l...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 8, for Tuesday the 8th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Wrath "And Henry rode up with the head on his lance..." "Don't be stupid." "He did! Though he must have stopped at the ford to stick it there, just to show off. It'd be too heavy to ride f...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 7, for Monday the 7th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Don't Let Go When Lily slipped, I caught her and we fell screaming together. Snow tore our faces until I slammed into rock, and she disappeared over the edge. Pain stretched the seconds, an...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 6, for Sunday the 6th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Titration After the earthquake, shorn power conduits shook and writhed until downtown was flooded with electric. Dirty, unaligned electric - no use to anyone, and lethal. The council set up...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 5, for Saturday the fifth of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: It's Not The Labour, It's The Parts I waved as he disappeared. I held my breath. He didn't come back. I waited a couple of hours, but still no cheerful creak as he shouldered open the d...

Your one-hundred word story for the day is: New Tricks Girls love a boy who's spliced in dog DNA. They can't wait to ruffle Hugo's fur, fondle his ears. Sylvie doesn't notice that the hand curled around the glass is too much paw these days. Doesn't see him when his money's run out, snapping and snarling over bones in the gutter. "You'd look cute with a tail," she says. "That's not for me," I murmu...

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction. Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 3, for Thuresday the 3rd of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt. Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Destiny She was born, red-haired and screaming, on the third full moon. The priests took up their chanting. Her siblings, whom she never met, worked the fields; she was taught to read th...