This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

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

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

Choice

by Elizabeth Guilt

"Expect the unexpected," read Melissa. "What does yours say?"

"Happy news is on the way. Oh god, I hope so. Anna, you haven't opened yours."

Anna shrugged. "I don't like them much."

Melissa laughed. "Literally no-one likes them. They're just for the message inside."

They were watching her, so Anna cracked her cookie open.

"Oh my god, Anna, it's blank! Ask for another one!"

"I don't mind."

They were always blank. Tarot cards blurred. Tea leaves formed perfect grids. Once, at a fair, the teller's crystal ball had cracked in two.

Anna smiled. "It's fine. I choose my own fortune."

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Recently, Graveside Press - the publishers of my novella, A Mortuary For Songs - asked if I had any promotional items for other projects. I made some Drabbletober stickers. Now I'm wondering if I should have made fortune cookies. I really like the idea of writing deeply sinister fortunes to put in them.

Oh, and let me now if you'd like a sticker!

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 3.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode2