This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 11, season 2, for Saturday the eleventh of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

The Eater of Secrets

by Elizabeth Guilt

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Mrs Tindall makes them stay behind, because no-one will admit breaking the window. When Hannah gets home the house is shaking.

Her mum slumps, despairing. "I've nothing left. You go up."

Hannah climbs the attic stairs, slowly, and whispers through the hatch.

"Jamie kicked his football through the window."

Now everyone will know about Jamie. She's used to the guilt.

The shaking doesn't stop. She tries again.

"Lily isn't really Sarah's friend."

Everything shakes so hard the roof screeches.

"When Daddy's working late, he actually goes to Auntie Helen's."

The house settles immediately. From the kitchen comes a single scream.

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

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode11