Season 2, Episode 12: It’s Not Just About Your DNA
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 12, season 2, for Sunday the twelfth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
It's Not Just About Your DNA
by Elizabeth Guilt
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I peer into the shaving mirror. That spot's got larger; it's now an angry red dash across my forehead. I poke at it. The skin breaks, with a thin, hard glint.
This used to happen to Dad. A bar fight, he said. Someone shoved him headfirst into a stack of pint jugs. Years later, when I was born, splinters of glass were still…
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