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S1 Bonus3: "How I Live My Life According To My Friend Simon's Advice"
Season 1
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of June, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is: How I Live My Life According To My Friend Simon's Advice
Simon once told me that you forget things when you walk through doors. I laughed, but he was right.
I started writing grocery lists in the kitchen. When travelling, I packed toiletries in the bathroom.
At work, I preferred to talk to colleagues at my desk so information didn't fall into meeting-room doorways. Eventually, I found it easier to work from home; catch up with friends over Zoom; order my food online.
I pulled my bed into the living room. Then my wardrobe, then a camping stove. A hose. A bucket. I sit at the centre.
And I remember everything.
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Simon is a real person, by the way, although I don't think he listens to this podcast. He really did tell me about what's known as the Doorway Effect. I haven't quite reached the extremes in this story. Not yet.
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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you again sometime.
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/june1bonus
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