Season 3, Episode 1: Refuge

Drabbletober · Oct 1, 2026 · 2m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober Season 3. This is episode 1, for Thursday the first of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

Refuge

by Elizabeth Guilt

I never liked the snow globe, it always seemed creepy. Tiny figures, trapped in their glass shell.

Some days there were just a few kids playing in the snow. Sometimes a dozen. I tried not to count them.

The snow globe had stood on Nan's mantelpiece - then Mum's - forever. But Bren didn't want it; Alice said take it to the charity shop.

I couldn't…