Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober Season 2. This is episode 25 for Saturday the twenty-fifth of October, 2025.
Oooh, Look, Breadcrumbs!
by Elizabeth Guilt
I was jamming my earbud back in when the world stopped.
His cloak was grey, mostly, with a greasy green-purple sheen. His boney face was pointed. In his hand, a sharp... Well, I didn't want to think about that.
"You're lucky," he said, voice softly bubbling.
"Lucky?" My bike lay crushed under a taxi, one wheel spinning gently.
"You're in my kingdom: the City of London. You can choose: oblivion, or a second, tiny life."
Some choice. "Doesn't everyone choose life?"
His head bobbed. The world span behind me, buildings loomed taller.
I strutted away to peck with my flock.