Season 2, Episode 12: It’s Not Just About Your DNA
A tiny speculative fiction story for October 12th, 2025.
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Show Notes
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 working their way out.
They always said I was my father's son. I have his quick temper, his broad fists.
The tiny scratch of glass falls into the sink. I wash it away, just like he did.
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Little splinters of this story are true. When I was a kid, glass really did come out of my Dad's forehead occasionally. He's the nicest man in the world, and he ended up with a faceful of glass in a car accident. One of the things he passed on to me is a lifelong belief in seatbelts.
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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 13.
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode12