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Drabblecast 182 – Trifecta XIV
This episode of Drabblecast is another Trifecta special, with the of: Identity. Norm debates how our perceptions of optical illusions reflect how each person views things in their own, personal way....
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Drabblecast 201 – Trifecta XV
“Are these fiddlebacks ferns mommy?” Cindy asked. Fiddlehead honey. Margery said absently. “Fiddlebacks are nasty spiders.” It was only later that she would realize Cindy, for once in her vacuous,...
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Drabblecast 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...
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Drabblecast 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...
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Drabblecast 256 – Roanoke, Nevada
“It’s the extra-terrestrials,” the General said, watching for my reaction. “Our extra-terrestrials are falling ill.” “Really?” I couldn’t keep the disbelief out of my voice. My eyes wandered back to...
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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 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 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 16 – Blue (93)
I had a dog, his name was Blue Betchya five dollars he’s a good one too. Come on Blue! I’m a-comin’ too. Glum weather in Baltimore inspires Norm to treat us all to a pair of melancholy stories. In...
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 ArticleDrabblecast 41 – Set Another Place at the Table, I’m Bringing My Pimple
It starts off like any normal bout of Pre-Menstrual Syndrome. I’m constipated, I’m depressed and I’ve got a pimple the size of a hazelnut on my chin… This week’s Drabble details a junk mail scam,...
View ArticleDrabblecast 62 – Sizzle
Insanity wears many masks… The post Drabblecast 62 – Sizzle appeared first on The Drabblecast.
View ArticleDrabblecast 72 – Exit
“Lieutenant,” she said, “Stevens obviously has it, or he would have quit this crap…” The post Drabblecast 72 – Exit appeared first on The Drabblecast.
View ArticleDrabblecast 81 – Snuffles
Snuffles’ cave was a marvelous place. It was where his glowing rock lived… The Mega-Beast Death-Match finals are announced. Stories detail mutants and things that aren’t what they appear to be. The...
View ArticleDrabblecast 86 – Half-Sneeze Johnny
If he ain’t comfortable, he can’t sneeze proper to save his life… During the Drabble News, Norm introduces us to the cutest little tongue-biting-then-tongue-impersonating parasite that one could ever...
View ArticleDrabblecast 89 – Starry Night
“They were frozen in place, and their bodies blazed. The angel was before them, and they were silent, burning with no heat…” The episode opens with a Drabble by John Medaille, a veteran of Podcastle,...
View ArticleDrabblecast 92 – Synesthesia
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 ArticleDrabblecast 93 – Blue
I had a dog, his name was Blue Betchya five dollars he’s a good one too. Come on Blue! I’m a-comin’ too. Glum weather in Baltimore inspires Norm to treat us all to a pair of melancholy stories. In...
View ArticleDrabblecast 133 – Over the Walls of Eden
“Why do you remember the books?” he finally asks. She smiles again. “O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere,...
View ArticleDrabblecast 161 – Higher than Usual
“We’ve got one of them,” he told me gleefully. “One of what?” I asked, bewildered. “One of them,” he said, as if that explained it. “Cheeky sod from Accounts came upstairs and tried to get a coffee out...
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