Season 3, Episode 15: Scope

Drabbletober · Oct 15, 2026 · 1m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 15, season 3, for Thursday the fifteenth of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

Scope

by Elizabeth Guilt

"This feels off."

"That's just a hunch. This is the distillation of fourteen thousand hours of eyewitness testimony, done by state-of-the-art tools..."

"AI tools."

"Accredited tools, using gold-standard cognitive interview techniques."

"I know, but... does anyone ever read the transcripts?"

"You know they do! Thorough consistency checks..."…