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S1 Bonus2: "Tea for the Dawn"

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Season 1

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This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of May, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Tea for the Dawn.

Dorothy opens the front door, and sighs. The other cottages - new thatch, smart paint, tightly-locked gates - are all dark at the windows. The village green is empty, and quiet.

Seventy years ago, there'd been crowds; everyone singing and cheering.

Sixty years ago, she'd stayed up all night, and stood swaying and laughing to watch the dancers.

Fifty years. She'd wondered if she'd ever get Annie to sleep with all that racket outside. Forty. She'd woken Annie up and they'd watched together. Thirty, twenty... People move on. Times change.

Dorothy smiles. raises her mug to the dawn, and welcomes the May.

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It's the first of May. Across the UK, ritual dancers of all kinds will have been up at dawn to dance up the sun, making sure summer returns for another year. Don't forget to say thank you to your local morris team.

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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you again sometime.

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/may1bonus

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Published on 5 months ago