This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 9, season 2, for Thursday the ninth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

First Time At Supper

by Elizabeth Guilt

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"Where is your tray?"

I didn't know I was supposed to have one. Everyone else is already eating.

She points, furiously. I scurry to the counter.

I pick up a bowl. A spoon.

The server stares at me, and I don't know what to say.

"Please?"

A grey ladleful lands in my bowl. Tentacles reach out from the thin soup, questing towards my hands.

I shriek, bowl sliding on the tray, liquid slopping over my sleeves, and stumble to a free seat.

Everyone watches me, spoons of broth writhing towards their mouths.

My supper heaves and frets at the bowl.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 10

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode9