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S3 E4: "The Plumbers' Merchant at the Intersection of Everywhere"
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This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 4, season 3, for Sunday the fourth of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is:
The Plumbers' Merchant at the Intersection of Everywhere
by Elizabeth Guilt
Three Ganymede joints? Certainly, love, is that half-inch or twelve mil? Right you are. Do you want parallel-threaded or tapered? Clockwise or counter?
Freddie! Fetch the lady three counterclock imperial taper Gannys, sharpish.
Here, that'll be...
What? Not copper pipes? Half-inch amorphous? Didn't even know they made those. You sure?
Well, blow me. Aha, read the date on the lead braze... wait, that'll be Gregorian not Julian. Pre-decimal lead, too.
Is it... oh. Android. Which version?
Broad gauge or standard?
Yeah, it would be.
Humming in the pipes? I should think you have!
Now, this humming. Concert pitch or chamber?
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I attempt plumbing - if I attempt it - nervously. It's amazing how often you can buy something which looks like the right thing, connects like the right thing, and turns out not to be the right thing.
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Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 5.
http://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s3episode4