<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 July, 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: Rapprochement</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">---</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">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.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">When Occupation ended, Gracie emerged from hiding, to universal acclaim. Then a newspaper finally found her husband.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">They met, grasping each other's hands after twenty years. In front of a thousand reporters. she whispered to him.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"You're not my husband. You're taller. Who are you?"</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"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?"</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Together, they smiled for the cameras.</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;"></p>
