Season 3, Episode 5: You've Really Blown It This Time
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 5, season 3, for Monday the fifth of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
You've Really Blown It This Time
by Elizabeth Guilt
They're trying to reach something behind the sofa. Their back is turned, their attention elsewhere.
Only for a moment. A moment's enough.
I snatch the thing from their waistband, the metal still warm from the pressure of their back. The angles are unfamiliar in my hand, but we've all seen the films. Played with the toys…
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