Episode 3: "Destiny"
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 the scrolls.
They starved and huddled by the hearth; she ate banquets and slept on silk.
They fought among themselves; the priests waited for her to fulfil the Prophecy.
They laughed, and shouted, and…
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