Bonus Episode 4: “Rapprochement”
Episode description
This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.
Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of July, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.
Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Rapprochement
---
Everyone remembers Gracie Carousel's wartime radio broadcasts. They cheered us, gave us heart. Even when her husband disappeared, she kept us hoping. Every day.
When Occupation ended, Gracie emerged from hiding, to universal acclaim. Then a newspaper finally found her husband.
They met, grasping each other's hands after twenty years. In front of a thousand reporters. she whispered to him.
"You're not my husband. You're taller. Who are you?"
"A resistance fighter who saw the real Gracie Carousel executed before the war ended. Are you going to rob our country of this happy ending?"
Together, they smiled for the cameras.
---
Take care, everyone, and I'll see you again sometime.