Season 2, Episode 14: What Fools These Mortals Be
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 14, season 2, for Tuesday the fourteenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
What Fools These Mortals Be
by Elizabeth Guilt
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Hersh's eyelids flutter, hands clenching and twisting. Hersh is - allegedly - the best, a hot-shot consultant, but it's been hours since he passed wetware security and jammed cables into his spine.
And the systems are still down. Heda checks, repeatedly, feeling like he's missing something.
"Hey... new boy. Err... Ike?…
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