This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 11, for Friday the 11th of October 2024, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

These Bills Don't Pay Themselves

Cursing people is easy. Anyone can do it. Removing curses, now. That's a skill. Learned it from my grandmother and I'm good at it.

No-one who comes through that door and pays up leaves with any kind of curse on them. Those who won't pay, mind, that's another story.

Trouble is, people are boring. A curse for a woman: losing her looks. A man? Usually someone's hoping, you know, something will drop off.

Past couple of weeks, mind. Wow. There's been some... yeah. Creative curses. I'm impressed.

It's intricate work, too. Looks ingtriguing. Looks... profitable.

I'm in the wrong business.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 12.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/episode11