Season 2, Episode 23: Ice Cubs
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 23, season 2, for Thursday the twenty-third of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
Ice Cubs
by Elizabeth Guilt
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Ice cubs crawled from the bay this morning. It's been a decade - we used to see them most years.
We've set up the perimeter. People will ignore it. Ice cubs are not bears - but they're not not bears, either. They glitter, like diamonds. They're really cute.
Scientists are the worst, all "pushing boundaries" and "furthering knowledge"…
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