<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 April, 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: Everywhere</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">---</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">There was a bang and, too late, a screech of brakes.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"Shit! A deer, we hit a deer."</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"What?"</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"A deer! You saw that, right?"</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Dave was five or six whiskeys down, his voice rising, panicking. </p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I'd seen blond hair, plastered by rain against a pale face.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">For weeks afterwards, I trawled local news sites. No reports of a road death, or a missing woman.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I stopped drinking after that. Dave didn't. When his car ran off the road, I wasn't surprised. </p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I don't drive at night any more. Is she there? I don't know, but I see her.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Everywhere.</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-apr1-bonus</p>