<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, 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: Generational</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">---</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">She looked at me, disappointed.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"Don't you want to?"</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"Of course I do! But... I need permission."</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"From who? You're an adult!"</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"The Paterfamilias."</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"Ha, the Paterf... wait, you're serious? You still have one?"</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">My great-great-grandfather wanted his dynasty to last forever. During that narrow window in the mid twenty-first century, when everyone thought they knew the future, he set up complicated deeds and entails. And he did it well. It's completely watertight - we still haven't found a legal route to unplugging the damned thing.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">"So, yeah. If we want to get married, we've got to convince a century-old AI."</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">---</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">As I'm sure you'll have noticed, AI is currently the answer to everything. I do wonder which particular aspects future generations will look back on and groan at our stupidity.</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-jun1-bonus</p>