This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 17, season 2, for Friday the seventeenth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

The Long Viewing

by Elizabeth Guilt

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"I'm freezing."

"Yeah."

"And my feet are soaked. Can you light a fire?"

"Not in wet woodland, in a foot of snow. No."

"But you're outdoorsy, don't you have waterproof matches or something?"

"Sure, when I know I'm going hiking. Today, I've got some gum, a paperclip, and a slimline volume of Seamus Heaney."

"Poetry? Were you trying to impress a girl?"

"Shut up."

"Anyway, I'm freezing."

"So, turn round. Go back to that shitty flatshare in Croydon."

"No way! This is an adventure. One thing, though."

"What?"

"Do you think the estate agent is still waiting outside that wardrobe?"

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 18.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode17