Season 3, Episode 14: When You're Not Looking
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 14, season 3, for Wednesday the fourteenth of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
When You're Not Looking
by Elizabeth Guilt
Katie sits in the kitchen. Mum will be home in a minute.
The phone rings. She screws up her face, hoping it will stop.
It doesn't.
Maybe it's Mum. Katie will be in trouble if she doesn't answer.
But she can't leave the kitchen.
The phone is still ringing.
She dashes down the hall: it's double glazing. She slams the…
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