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

Drabbletober · Oct 29, 2025 · 2m

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

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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 part-exchange my kraken. Do you remove the old one when you deliver?"

"Seriously?"

"Mine's…