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Drabblecast 193 – Scales
One day when a surge of dying summer heat roiled through the waterways, spoiling my fishing, I punted home to find Mama running down the grassy swell towards my docking-place. Hope died in her face...
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Drabblecast 198 – Love in the Pneumatic Tube Era
We discover old scrolls that we wrote to each other in high school, back in the Early Pneumatic Tube Era. That was back when a PT message took five minutes to get across the city. We shake our heads....
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Drabblecast 209 – Babyhead
Cynthia couldn’t explain what she’d just seen in the vegetable patch. She didn’t want to look again. She considered going back into the house, crawling back into bed with Mikey, and putting it down as...
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Drabblecast 226 – The Heroics of Interior Design
I can’t fly faster than a speeding bullet. I can’t lift a car. I can’t climb slick surfaces with my bare hands or breath underwater or stop time. All I can do is change blue things to yellow. I didn’t...
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Drabblecast 233 – A Blade of Love
Allan Thermoose’s wife is in love with a blade of grass. It’s the 375th blade directly even with the crack in the third slab of sidewalk east of the mailbox. The blade gets full sun all day, and Allan,...
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Drabblecast 238 – From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7
Translating… Appendix 820 of The Forbidden Greeny Jungle Field Guide. This series of audio files was created by TreeFrog7. It has been automatically translated into text In this episode of the...
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Drabblecast 240 – Trifecta XXI
We bought our first yarn baby at a garage sale. The ends of its arms were frayed and its eye buttons dangled loose on bare threads. This theme of this episode of the Drabblecast is family unties:...
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Drabblecast 243 – The Other Lila
I step out of a porter booth in the overheated Los Angeles station and reach up to peel off my winter coat. That’s when I realize something’s wrong with my hand — it feels numb and prickly, and the...
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Drabblecast 263 – Betty Flesh and the Meat Man
“Your suitor’s here!” Ma Flesh hurried into the back room of the butcher’s shop. “Are you presentable?” Betty waited there amongst the swinging, marbled yellow cow carcasses. The wooden butcher’s table...
View ArticleDrabblecast 397 – Fruit and Words
This week The Drabblecast presents “Fruit and Words” by Aimee Bender; a story about words and their meanings. Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal plots...
View ArticleDrabblecast 105 – Doubleheader 2
She’d been hunting full-grown pies for four years now. The little hand-held fruit pies were for kids– the preservatives made them slow and stupid– but pies in the wild, they were the true treasure,...
View ArticleDrabblecast 107 – The Alchemical Automaton Blues
“How often does it do that?” the faun asked. “Most of the time. The poor thing’s totally neglected. They never speak to it or interact with it– except for when the kids are throwing rocks at it…”...
View ArticleDrabblecast 114 – Arms and the Man
In this episode of the Drabblecast, we present “Arms and the Man” by Mary Turzillo. It’s a story of a divorced woman, burned out to love, who finds hope with a change of phylum. It’s truly...
View ArticleDrabblecast 117 – Curse of the Alien’s Wife
Now that his supernal caress has become the familiar sanctum of her nights, she fears that no mere human partner could ever satisfy her again… This episode starts with Norm announcing the return of the...
View ArticleDrabblecast 122 – The Fallen and the Muse of the Street
Angels, fallen or otherwise, weren’t known for their appreciation of human art… On this episode of the Drabblecast, a Gaiman’esque tale of the urban supernatural from fan favorite Tim Pratt. How will a...
View ArticleDrabblecast 130 – Trifecta IX
Trifecta 9, dinosaurs, love, monsters, everything you need. Featuring works by Bruce Holland Rogers, Steve Calvert and Bruce Boston. The post Drabblecast 130 – Trifecta IX appeared first on The...
View ArticleDrabblecast 156 – Going to the Chapel
Amilee Jo Baker’s day of wedded bliss was the biggest scandal the congregation of Millton County’s First Brotherhood Baptist Church had endured since Ginger Lynn married that Liebowitz boy from the...
View ArticleDrabblecast 160 – Trifecta XII
An apocalyptic trio of stories on this week’s Drabblecast featuring works by authors G.A. Semones, Douglas Warrick, and M. Thomas. The post Drabblecast 160 – Trifecta XII appeared first on The...
View ArticleDrabblecast 180 – Something Borrowed, Something Doomed
While the rest a’ the country had turned away from the biorevolution, we Best Virginians had become magicians. We had learned how to use the tiniest creatures to change the world in the biggest, most...
View ArticleDrabblecast 189 – Doubleheader VIII
They needed a virgin to make a bargain with the sea monster who hunted the waters off their coast, and they were not willing to sacrifice their daughters… With the theme this week being about freedom,...
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