Bonus Episode 2: "Tea for the Dawn"
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of May, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Tea for the Dawn.
Dorothy opens the front door, and sighs. The other cottages - new thatch, smart paint, tightly-locked gates - are all dark at the windows. The village green is empty, and quiet.
Seventy years ago, there'd been crowds; everyone singing and cheering.
Sixty years ago, she'd stayed up all night, and stood swaying and laughing to watch the dancers.
Fifty years. She'd…
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