Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober Season 2. This is episode 21 for Tuesday the twenty-first of October, 2025.
The Light of Your life
by 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.