Season 3, Episode 23: Wolfkin
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 23, season 3, for Friday
the twenty-third of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Wolfkin
by Elizabeth Guilt
Before she sets out, Emma looks again at the photo. He's frozen at sixteen: long straggly hair, uneven beard. She's grown up, overtaken him. Now she's not fighting for attention from her beloved older brother, she can see how unhappy he looks.
"A loner", everyone said. Before he vanished, they'd called him worse.
He'd told Emma what he had…
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