This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 23, season 2, for Thursday the twenty-third of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

Ice Cubs

by Elizabeth Guilt

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Ice cubs crawled from the bay this morning. It's been a decade - we used to see them most years.

We've set up the perimeter. People will ignore it. Ice cubs are not bears - but they're not not bears, either. They glitter, like diamonds. They're really cute.

Scientists are the worst, all "pushing boundaries" and "furthering knowledge". Last time, one approached the cubs. Things were brief and very, very red.

The ice cubs will leave in a week or so. My grandfather always said they climb into the mountains and become glaciers. 

Perhaps they do. We don't need to know everything.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 24.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode23