Season 2, Episode 11: The Eater of Secrets

Drabbletober · Oct 11, 2025 · 1m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 11, season 2, for Saturday the eleventh of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

The Eater of Secrets

by Elizabeth Guilt

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Mrs Tindall makes them stay behind, because no-one will admit breaking the window. When Hannah gets home the house is shaking.

Her mum slumps, despairing. "I've nothing left. You go up."

Hannah climbs the attic stairs, slowly, and whispers through the hatch.

"Jamie kicked his football through the window."

Now everyone will know…