Season 2, Episode 29: It Was Supposed To Be a Joke

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 29, season 2, for Wednesday the twenty-ninth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is:It Was Meant To Be a Jokeby Elizabeth Guilt---Typical slow Thursday, and a short man slunk up to the counter. "I'm here about the poster."Great. Steven's latest hobby is designing ornate prank - obviously prank - flyers."Oh? Need a unicorn groomed, do you?""No. I want to part-exchange my kraken. Do you remove the old one when you deliver?""Seriously?""Mine's useless. Sluggish, pale, tentacles scarred to buggery.""It's not...""Can't charge tourists a few grand to slay a beast that won't fight.""Slay?""They all think they're Sir Galahad. None of 'em survived so far, but..""You killed...""I need a new kraken. What are your terms?"---Recently, I was walking through Sheffield with friends and we saw a shop-window advert offering money off what the internet calls "a very well-known brand of rectangular backpack". Someone misread it, and thus the part-exchange kraken was born.---Take care, everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow for episode 30.https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2episode29