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Drabbletober

Elizabeth Guilt

Fiction

Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 33

The podcast of tiny speculative fiction. Brand new drabbles (stories of exactly 100 words) every day during October.

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Bonus Episode 1: "Bruisetown"

Season 1

Friday, March 28, 2025 • Duration 01:53

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 and wrists and sullen eyes. Linger too long on the road, and mottled grey crept across the backs of your hands. Even the sea had a stewed, purple-green tinge.

Occasionally, someone made it out. They would win every bareknuckle fight for miles, taking punch after punch, then collect their prizes and go right back to Bruisetown.

Even stumbling from the ring, they'd stare at our unmarked faces, eyes full of nothing but pity.

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Recently, I had to do some audio editing, and discovered I couldn't remember how to do even the basics. I thought I'd better put together a Drabbletober episode, just to check I could remember how. If you're listening to this, I guess I did?

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you again sometime.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/march28bonus

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Episode 31: "The Ghost of the Future"

Season 1 · Episode 31

Thursday, October 31, 2024 • Duration 01:57

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 eyeholes, completes the outfit.

Arms raised, the ghost checks carefully in the bathroom mirror.

"Going to the party?" asks Mum.

"Wooooo!"

"Very scary, Pete. Enjoy yourself. Be a good boy."

"Nooooooo!"

In the village hall, vampires and witches are already eating cake.

"Who are you?" demands Frankenstein's monster.

"I am the ghost of Sarah."

They laugh, and shrug, and call the ghost Sarah all night.

Under the bedsheet, she smooths her dress and smiles.

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And that's it for Drabbletober 2024. If you've been listening for the whole of October, then thanks for coming along for the ride.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you again sometime.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode31

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Episode 30: "The Gauntlet"

Season 1 · Episode 30

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 • Duration 01:23

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. Her hand shot to her throat, pinning her to the wall.

I screamed, leaping to my feet and reaching for her wrists.

She spluttered with laughter.

"Oh, mum, your face! I can't believe you thought that was real."

She slid slowly down the wall, laughing until her face turned red and her eyes watered.

She was still laughing when her hand, still around her throat, began to squeeze.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 31.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode30

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Episode 29: "Security, in a Tuxedo"

Season 1 · Episode 29

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 • Duration 02:00

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 drinks with hands and feet, bunnies lounging lasciviously across laps. Bears kept the tourists under control. Just.

Only one spot in the busy centre was calm. Smart black-and-white waiters waddled, cocktail trays on flippers, up to marble tables. You could hear the ice clink as they set the glasses down.

"Why so quiet?" whispered one punter.

"Never underestimate these guys. And no-one wants to admit they were thrown out of a bar by a penguin."

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One of the reasons I find penguins so delightful is that they always manage to look exactly like pictures of themselves - something they share with tigers, and pints of Guinness. It is a very satisfactory quality.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 30.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode29

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Episode 28: "Breaking the Rainbow"

Season 1 · Episode 28

Monday, October 28, 2024 • Duration 01:54

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 first-year science, and again when we covered refraction in GCSE physics.

He was seventeen when I caught him vandalising the gym.

"What is this?" I demanded.

He shrugged, sigils dribbling paint down the wall. "Weather magic."

I raised concerns with the school counsellor.

It rained this morning. I heard his voice, then I saw the sky shatter. His face drifted past my lab's second floor window as he ascended, blissfully, into multicoloured brilliance.

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Rainbows are one of my favourite natural phenomena, and understanding refraction does not make them any less magical or mysterious.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 29.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode28

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Episode 27: "Flamingo Bread"

Season 1 · Episode 27

Sunday, October 27, 2024 • Duration 01:26

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. It had been a treat, when eggs were rationed; a wartime cake made with mayonnaise and baking soda and red food colouring. When we baked it, it was every bit as vile as it sounded.

Heraclitus said you can never step in the same river twice. Gran knew that. She kept her flamingo bread in her head her whole life, as bright, and pink, and delicious as it always had been.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 28.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode27

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Episode 26: "The Handler"

Season 1 · Episode 26

Saturday, October 26, 2024 • Duration 01:49

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 filthy language as I pulled him off a terrified sporty type.

"Zip it," I snapped, flinging him out through the door. "Get going, the rest of you."

A polite cough sounded behind me.

"Could you help me up? Not as young as I was."

Seventies, I guessed. No wheels, and worn straps.

"Of course, sir."

I picked him up, and placed him gently on the baggage carousel.

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Have you ever noticed? If you check multiple bags in for a flight, they come out miles apart at the other end. I've always wondered what they get up to, and whether they had a falling-out in between.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 27.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode26

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Episode 25: "5 Phoenix Court"

Season 1 · Episode 25

Friday, October 25, 2024 • Duration 01:36

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, the Patels. The old man from 2 is sitting on the wall, the new couple are holding their screaming baby. Mrs Delamere is still in Egypt.

Everything she owns is burning. Piles of unread books, cupboards full of childhood treasures she can't give away, wardrobes stuffed with vintage clothes. Letters from old lovers, inherited paintings, paperwork, electronics, furniture...

In the flickering light, Mara dances. She has never felt so free.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 26.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode25

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Episode 24: "Recognition"

Season 1 · Episode 24

Thursday, October 24, 2024 • Duration 01:51

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 drilled into my skull.

Then, suddenly, he was gone. Dead, I think. His flat was larger, so I gave notice and moved across the hall.

When a new tenant took my old flat, he looked familiar. Very familiar, but for years, no matter how I tried, I couldn't place his face. Without warning, it struck me in the middle of the night. I knew exactly who he was.

And I started to scream.

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Jeffrey Lewis is a New York antifolk hero, famous for his songs and his hand-drawn "low-budget videos". I've been going to see his gigs for probably more than twenty years now. Today's drabble was directly inspired by his song Sad Screaming Old Man. I'll pop a link to the song in the shownotes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrQgVRGvLkQ

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 25.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode24

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Episode 23: "Unicorns"

Season 1 · Episode 23

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 • Duration 01:50

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 roads of Fairyland.

The King of the Fairies met the King of the Bikers at the Border, and begged him to stop them.

The Biker King laughed.

"I will send unicorns to guard the border," said the Fairy.

The Biker King laughed harder, and on Sunday morning he lead the roaring engines down the road.

The unicorns waited, bigger than shirehorses. Bull-necked and wild-eyed; jagged metal battering rams bound at their brows.

Heads down, they charged.

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If, like me, you've lived in towns and cities all your life, it's always a bit of a surprise how large and intimidating horses can be. I've never quite believed that adding a huge, spiralling horn would make them into gentle and compassionate creatures.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 24.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode23

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