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Drabblecast 234 – Jagannath
Another child was born in the great Mother, excreted from the tube protruding from the Nursery ceiling. It landed with a wet thud on the organic bedding underneath. Papa shuffled over to the birthing...
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Drabblecast 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...
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Drabblecast 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...
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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 245 – A Nice Jewish Golem
“Mrs. Levine, it is hard enough for someone to find the right person to love in the world, even with all the people in it. For Yeshua, it is almost impossible. Would you have him fall in love with a...
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Drabblecast 252 – The Elder Thing and the Puddle People
Upon the coming of the rain and the and the reawakening of the Krr’at race, the Elder Thing returned to us and squealed Its sky-splitting squeal and waded in among us. It came with the green feet that...
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Drabblecast 258 – Brown Dust
“Adao, no.” Teo, the older boy’s second-in-command, lays a staying hand on his master’s arm. “The stories I told you about this one… they’re true.” “True?” Adao casts a skeptic’s eye over Santos....
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Drabblecast 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...
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Drabblecast 267 – Postapocalypsemas
Sandeer smelled her. It was just a whiff, a few molecules of something familiar and therefore sweet, wafting on a late afternoon breeze that otherwise carried only the usual: formaldehyde, benzene,...
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Drabblecast 269 – Bright Lights
The water fountains are low. The lockers are empty. The summer air is warm but there are people in the classrooms. People are talking, are moving. A female emerges from the nearest classroom. She is...
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Drabblecast 284 – Turning Point
Please, mister, could I have a cracker for my oontatherium?” Not exactly the words you would expect at an instant when history changes course and the universe can never again be what it was. The die is...
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Drabblecast 286 – Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse
Father Leggett stood on the sidewalk and looked up at the three narrow stories of gray brick that was 207 East Charlton Street. Compared to the other edifices on Lafayette Square—the Colonial Dames...
View ArticleDrabbleclassics 1 – Clown Eggs (115)
Author Jay Lake knew about the devil and he knew about the clowns. When his story, Clown Eggs, first appeared on the Drabblecast, listeners said things like “This might be, hands-down, the weirdest...
View ArticleDrabbleclassics 2 – Over the Walls of Eden (133)
If you listened to Clown Eggs and thought, “I need more stories like THAT,” you are in for a treat. This week, we listen to Jay Lake’s “Over the Walls of Eden”-stick around at the end and hear a...
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 8 – The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk (214)
Achtromagk shuddered, lost in nightmare images: crimson lightning dotting a wasteland, twilight despair and feeble railings, isolation in a mewling throng. It thrashed and twisted but could not escape,...
View ArticleDrabbleclassics 10 – The Wiggly People (68)
Uncle Karl shouts when he’s mad, and sometimes he smacks Mama. That always makes the sharp things hurt me and the wiggly people come out… On this episode of the Drabblecast, a dark tale from favorite...
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 ArticleDrabblecast 361 – Time to Say Goodnight
“Then Duck left Mr. Tomkin’s farm and went to swim in Glacier Lake, just like he’d always wanted.” Mommy looked up from the last page, but Clara wasn’t sleeping. “And then what did Duck do?” Clara...
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