Season 2, Bonus Episode 8: Generational

Drabbletober · Jun 1, 2026 · 2m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of June, 2026. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Generational

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She looked at me, disappointed.

"Don't you want to?"

"Of course I do! But... I need permission."

"From who? You're an adult!"

"The Paterfamilias."

"Ha, the Paterf... wait, you're serious? You still have one?"

My great-great-grandfather wanted his dynasty to last forever. During that narrow window in the mid twenty-first century, when everyone thought they knew…