Bonus Episode 5: "Living on the Face"

Drabbletober · Aug 1, 2025 · 1m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of August, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Living on the Face

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I stumbled blearily down to the water's edge. Which wasn't there.

My eyes snapped open. There should be... shoreline. Waves. A line of uneven wooden posts. We tied our boat up there. So did every other family. The lake couldn't be... gone.

I ran.

"Don't be ridiculous." Mum pointed, and there were the posts, and the lake, just as usual. And a mess of…