Season 3, Episode 12: Opportunity
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 12, season 3, for Monday the twelfth of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
Opportunity
by Elizabeth Guilt
The lady stood, arms on the balustrade, facing out to sea. Garrick couldn't believe his luck.
He strolled, elaborately nonchalant, and dipped into her bag. Quick fingers identified comb, diary, purse...
She moved like a viper, squeezing his wrist until the bones cracked.
He dragged against her grip, visions of police, courts, and gallows…
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