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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...
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Drabblecast 266 – Little Grace of the House of Death
The niece of King Death had not yet chosen a name. She was the only daughter and youngest child of Death’s sister, Merciful Grace, and everyone still called her by her baby name, Little Grace… The...
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Drabblecast 285 – Doubleheader XIII
Samuel sat on the balcony, enjoying the fading light of day. When the ventilator pushed air into his lungs, he savored the salt brine from the sea. He pretended that he had control over breath, but it...
View ArticleDrabblecast B-Sides 36 – Warm Regression
There were always bright rings on the doorbell and smiling faces carrying covered dishes. There was always a peck on the cheek for us kids when grandma came, and always a strong handshake from grandpa....
View ArticleDrabbleclassics 4 – Annabelle’s Alphabet (129)
Annabelle’s mother closed her eyes. “Get it sharp,” she said. “Very sharp, so it doesn’t hurt much. I’ll boil some water.” Somewhere in the house, far from the green places she’d known, baby Annabelle...
View ArticleDrabbleclassics 14 – Jelly Park (43)
“I’m not sure I belong here.” “Then where do you belong?” The others stopped chewing and looked at me expectantly. What am I?… As Norm detailed his Christmas plans, the common theme of this episode...
View ArticleDrabbleclassics 17 – Apologies All Around (76)
“Pardon, Winston Sinclair, I am not here to sell you something. I am not here to buy something. Winston Sinclair, sir, I am here to apologize…” Jeff Soesbe, graduate of The Viable Paradise Workshop,...
View ArticleDrabbleclassics 23 – Synesthesia (92)
They called it “Synesthesia.” It’s when the senses got mixed up and you started to hear colors or taste sounds… Norm begins this with a warning concerning graphic violence and gore. We return to one...
View ArticleDrabbleclassics 26 – Unreliable Witness (235)
I don’t know if this is the same tape as last time, because They keep moving things around and stealing them. I don’t know who does it. It may be the staff here, or my own family when they come … read...
View ArticleDrabblecast Director’s Cut: Jelly Park
“It’s about getting on the bus…” Norm and author Aliya Whiteley talk double decker busses, double decker tacos, embracing weirdness for what it is and reinventing yourself. They also get into the in’s...
View ArticleDrabblecast 230 – Bears Discover Fire
This episode of the Drabblecast presents “Bears Discover Fire,” by Terry Bisson. We examine and interpret humanity through anthropomorphism. When bears discover fire, stop hibernating, and begin...
View ArticleDrabblecast 235 – Unreliable Witness
I don’t know if this is the same tape as last time, because They keep moving things around and stealing them. I don’t know who does it. It may be the staff here, or my own family when they come to...
View ArticleDrabblecast 237 – Test Drive
It was my turn to wear the mask, but my egg-sister Linney wouldn’t give it up. She’d been wearing the mask all morning, set on Smile, and it was a test day, too. Everyone thought she was so pleased and...
View ArticleDrabblecast 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:...
View ArticleDrabblecast 244 – Doubleheader XI
It had rolled and tumbled, whatever it was, gelatinous and tentacled, from lake to canal to stream. People watched from the shore, following it with opera glasses and sea telescopes. Some thought it...
View ArticleDrabblecast 248 – The Cockroach Hat
“What I don’t like about it,” said Cliffe, “is that is it’s just a metaphor instead of something real.” “What if it was real?” I (Sam) asked. “What if it was me and I actually turned into a cockroach...
View ArticleDrabblecast 250 – Trifecta XXII
My name is… John. I am… I have a wife and a daughter. They are visiting me today. Their names– Alice. And Anna. I can see, sort of. Everything is blurry. I am submerged in a coffin, a clear coffin with...
View ArticleDrabblecast 259 – The Last of the O-Forms
At the sack’s bottom, beneath an empty donut box, he found the beef jerky. It tasted mostly of pepper, but underneath it had a tingly, metallic flavor he tried not to think about. Who knew what it...
View ArticleDrabblecast 450 – A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Episode Sponsor: You Know It’s True by J.R. Hamantaschen This week on the Drabblecast, we bring you a classic story by Flannery O’Conner about simpler times and a summer family vacation gone awry....
View ArticleDrabblecast 474- Exit the Professor
This week on the Drabblecast– mutant hillbillies! Cover art by Bo Kaier Exit the Professor by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore We Hogbens are right exclusive. That Perfesser feller from the city might...
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