This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 20, season 2, for Monday the twentieth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

Small God

by Elizabeth Guilt

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The thing you remember about him isn't how he died. It isn't his bass-playing - did he play bass? - or his failed businesses. It certainly isn't the three lawsuits that were pending when his car spun off the road and over the cliff.

You remember the photograph of him, the one that won all the awards.

He holds his bare arms aloft, lasers glancing off his dark skin, dreadlocks swirling around him. You can almost feel the pounding beat, the roar of the crowd.

He stands; a warrior on the speaker stack.

Indomitable.

Powerful.

And that's what you will always remember.

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Human memory is a weird and capricious thing. I find it fascinating the way we can sometimes latch onto a single image of a person, or an event, and forget almost every other detail.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 21.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode20