Episode 13: "Duty of Care"
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 13, for Sunday the 13th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
Duty of Care
Adam always wanted to be a doctor. He wanted to help anyone who was in trouble. His teachers laughed, given his grades and his slow reading. Then the apocalypse came, and suddenly careers didn't matter any more. Very few things mattered.
"Get inside, love."
Adam gave his daughter a gentle push. She toddled through the door, oblivious to the groaning wails coming closer…
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