<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 February, 2026. 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: Someone Needs Looking After</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">---</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"Evelyn! Come in!" </p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Nan waves her visitor down the corridor, and keeps up her half of the conversation.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"I know! Awful out there... Yeah... That's February for you..."</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Nan's delusions are getting worse. But no-one actually comes round now, and these imaginary visits keep her cheerful.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I head to the kitchen so I don't have to play along. She can't live alone now, but I'm happy looking after her. Except when she hallucinates doctors coming to examine me. I could do without that.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">As 'Evelyn' 'departs', I hear Nan whisper. </p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"So sorry about my grandson. His delusions are getting worse."</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">---</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><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2-feb1-bonus</p>