Season 2, Episode 25: Oooh, Look, Breadcrumbs!
A tiny speculative fiction story for October 25th, 2025.
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Show Notes
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 25, season 2, for Saturday the twenty-fifth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
Oooh, Look, Breadcrumbs!
by Elizabeth Guilt
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I was jamming my earbud back in when the world stopped.
His cloak was grey, mostly, with a greasy green-purple sheen. His boney face was pointed. In his hand, a sharp... Well, I didn't want to think about that.
"You're lucky," he said, voice softly bubbling.
"Lucky?" My bike lay crushed under a taxi, one wheel spinning gently.
"You're in my kingdom: the City of London. You can choose: oblivion, or a second, tiny life."
Some choice. "Doesn't everyone choose life?"
His head bobbed. The world span behind me, buildings loomed taller.
I strutted away to peck with my flock.
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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 26.
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode25