Season 2, Episode 21: The Light of Your Life

Drabbletober · Oct 21, 2025 · 1m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 21, season 2, for Tuesday the twenty-first of October 2025, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

The Light of your Life

by Elizabeth Guilt

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I only remember two things from visiting my Auntie: her beautiful lamp and the way my uncle would sit, inert, mouth constantly twitching. A stroke, I guess, but no-one told kids anything back then.

Benny visited the day after I discovered Auntie left me the lamp.

"How does it work?"

"Dunno. I tried a candle, it turned…