<p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of June, 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Your one-hundred word story for the day is: How I Live My Life According To My Friend Simon's Advice</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Simon once told me that you forget things when you walk through doors. I laughed, but he was right. </p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I started writing grocery lists in the kitchen. When travelling, I packed toiletries in the bathroom.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">At work, I preferred to talk to colleagues at my desk so information didn't fall into meeting-room doorways. Eventually, I found it easier to work from home; catch up with friends over Zoom; order my food online.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I pulled my bed into the living room. Then my wardrobe, then a camping stove. A hose. A bucket. I sit at the centre.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">And I remember everything.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">---</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Simon is a real person, by the way, although I don't think he listens to this podcast. He really did tell me about what's known as the Doorway Effect. I haven't quite reached the extremes in this story. Not yet.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">---</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Take care, everyone, and I'll see you again sometime.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/june1bonus</p>