Episode 26: "The Handler"

Drabbletober · Oct 26, 2024 · 1m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 26, for Saturday the 26th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is: The Handler

I could hear the fighting from outside. It was one of the hard cases, a small one. It always is, all entitlement and "I shouldn't be in here" attitude.

There were snarls and filthy language as I pulled him off a terrified sporty type.

"Zip it," I snapped, flinging him out through the door. "Get going, the rest of you."

A polite cough sounded behind me.

"Could you help…