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S2 E21: "The Light of Your Life"
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This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 21, season 2, for Tuesday the twenty-first of October 2025, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
The Light of your Life
by Elizabeth Guilt
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I only remember two things from visiting my Auntie: her beautiful lamp and the way my uncle would sit, inert, mouth constantly twitching. A stroke, I guess, but no-one told kids anything back then.
Benny visited the day after I discovered Auntie left me the lamp.
"How does it work?"
"Dunno. I tried a candle, it turned the glass black. Coffee?"
"Please."
Minutes later, he had it shining.
"Wow, that's..."
Benny stared fixedly ahead, lips mumbling soundlessly.
Just like my uncle.
When I smashed the lamp, the glow leaked back into him.
Within minutes, he'd recovered enough to start screaming.
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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 22.
https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode21