This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 25, season 2, for Saturday the twenty-fifth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

Oooh, Look, Breadcrumbs!

by Elizabeth Guilt

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I was jamming my earbud back in when the world stopped.

His cloak was grey, mostly, with a greasy green-purple sheen. His boney face was pointed. In his hand, a sharp... Well, I didn't want to think about that. 

"You're lucky," he said, voice softly bubbling. 

"Lucky?" My bike lay crushed under a taxi, one wheel spinning gently.

"You're in my kingdom: the City of London. You can choose: oblivion, or a second, tiny life."

Some choice. "Doesn't everyone choose life?"

His head bobbed. The world span behind me, buildings loomed taller.

I strutted away to peck with my flock.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 26.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode25