Season 3, Episode 21: Coming Back

Drabbletober · Oct 21, 2026 · 2m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 21, season 3, for Wednesday the twenty-first of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

Coming Back

by Elizabeth Guilt

My dad was always a joker. So even though he was dying, I didn't believe him.

The green notebook was full of his slanted writing.

"My name was David Baker," it began. "I joined up in 1914. I was seventeen."

"You dictated it all to me," Dad said. "You were about five."

I flipped through. Names. Dates. Details. A horrific day of…