Season 2, Episode 17: The Long Viewing

Drabbletober · Oct 17, 2025 · 1m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 17, season 2, for Friday the seventeenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

The Long Viewing

by Elizabeth Guilt

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"I'm freezing."

"Yeah."

"And my feet are soaked. Can you light a fire?"

"Not in wet woodland, in a foot of snow. No."

"But you're outdoorsy, don't you have waterproof matches or something?"

"Sure, when I know I'm going hiking. Today, I've got some gum, a paperclip, and a slimline volume of Seamus Heaney."

"Poetry? Were you trying…