Episode 18: "Jump!"
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 18, for Friday the 18th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
Jump!
"Jump!"
She clambered onto the windowsill, her small fingers clutching the frame. When she looked down, she whimpered.
"I don't want to, Billy."
"Hold my hand. We'll jump together."
Billy's strings trailed from his wooden arm.
"It's so far down. I'll die."
"You're going to jump, Judy."
"But I'm scared."
His painted black eyes grew darker.
"Jump. Now."
She stared, dazed, at the…
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