Season 2, Episode 21: The Light of Your Life

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 Lifeby Elizabeth Guilt---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.------Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 22.https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode21