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

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

From Drabbletober by Elizabeth Guilt

October 29, 2025 · 2 min · Season 2 · Episode 29

About this episode

In this episode, Elizabeth Guilt presents a humorous story about a man seeking to exchange his kraken for a new one.

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 Joke by 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…

People in this episode

Host: Elizabeth Guilt

Topics covered

  • fiction
  • humor
  • pranks
  • fantasy
  • storytelling

Keywords

  • kraken
  • prank
  • fiction
  • humor
  • story

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: It Was Meant To Be a Joke

Places: Sheffield

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