Season 2, Episode 2: Choice

Drabbletober · Oct 2, 2025 · 1m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 2, season 2, for Thursday the second of October 2025, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

Choice

by Elizabeth Guilt

"Expect the unexpected," read Melissa. "What does yours say?"

"Happy news is on the way. Oh god, I hope so. Anna, you haven't opened yours."

Anna shrugged. "I don't like them much."

Melissa laughed. "Literally no-one likes them. They're just for the message inside."

They were watching her, so Anna cracked her cookie open.

"Oh my god, Anna, it's…