Drabblecast 474- Exit the Professor
Mutant hillbillies on this week's Drabblecast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 19, 2023•34 min
The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast
Stories feature on the Drabblecast are generally narrated by charismatic host, humorist, and musician Norm Sherman. A full production, the Drabblecast features multiple voice actors, music, and foley effects. The podcast has a finely tuned 'voice' that crosses all genres, including horror, science fiction, fantasy and 'other.' Special features include 100-word stories called, “drabbles,” 100 character stories coined “twabbles,” as well as Norm's own Bbardles, songs based on story themes. Original cover art accompanies every episode.
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Drabblecast 473- Trunk to Trunk
The Drabblecast brings you an original tale of interspecies aid. We present "Trunk to Trunk," by P.B. Yeary. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 30, 2023•20 min
Drabblecast 472- The Hard Problem of Consciousness
#Hivelife this week on the Drabblecast! We bring you "The Hard Problem of Consciousness" by Andrew Giffin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 15, 2023•20 min
Drabblecast 471- The Monster-God of Marmurth
The Drabblecast takes you on an expedition you're gonna have to see with your own eyes to believe! We bring you The Monster-God of Marmurth by Edmond Hamilton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 05, 2023•38 min•Ep. 471
Drabblecast 470- Personal Best
The Drabblecast presents an original story by Michael Bettendorf about sports, parental expectations and growing up the hard way in a literal way. Read to you by Renee Chambliss. Art by DS Oswald Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 29, 2023•32 min•Ep. 470
Drabblecast 469- Yummy Tummy
Dating is weird this week on the Drabblecast. We bring you a Drabblecast original, “Yummy Tummy,” by Chelsea Pumpkins, read by Word Whore. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 29, 2023•16 min•Ep. 469
Drabblecast 468 – The Bad Ones Are Always The Best
The Drabblecast returns with a sinister tale of generational ick. We present “The Bad Ones Are Always the Best,” by Michelle Ann King. The Bad Ones Are Always the Best by Michelle Ann King Marty’s grandson takes the cup of tea he’s offered — without saying thank you, mind — and stares at it dubiously, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 22, 2023•20 min•Ep. 465
Drabblecast 467 – Woods For the Trees
On this week’s Drabblecast, Dendrology meets Criminal Psychology. A story by Harley Carnell. Art by Bo Kaier. Woods For the Trees by Harley Carnell On the second day of our search for John Shaw, John Shaw joins our search party. Frustrated after years of incompetence and inaction from the authorities, and after Shaw recently committed […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 25, 2023•16 min
Drabblecast 466 – Is This a Plate?
Ever feel Déjà vu on the road supposedly less traveled? Truth and lies on this week’s Drabblecast, we bring you an original story from Bob McHugh called “Is This a Plate?” Enjoy! Produced by Adam Pracht Read by Dominick Rabrun Beyond this point, two paths lie One you live, one you die Ask one […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 11, 2023•26 min
Drabblecast 465 – Trifecta: Love Hurts
This week’s show has it all: vampires, evolutionary biology, and quivering jacked up Taylor Swifts. We bring you three flash fiction pieces about the complications of being in love: Taylor Swift by Hugh Behm-Steinberg, The Evolution of a Breakup by Etgar Keret, and May I Come In by Adrienne Ryan. Narrations provided by Avery Alexander, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 09, 2023•20 min
Drabblecast 464 – The Follower’s Revel
This week we the Drabblecast brings you some interesting original historic found footage uncovered by author Jonathan Louis Duckworth called, “The Follower’s Revel.” Enjoy! Art by Bo Kaier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 23, 2022•27 min
Drabblecast 463 – A Hymn Upon the Lips of the Dead
Episode Sponsor– Mothmen 1966 The secret’s out on this week’s Drabblecast, and nothing will ever be the same. We bring you an original Drabblecast story called “A Hymn Upon the Lips of the Dead,” by Mav Lux. Oh and Norm sings us a song about singing that he should have just told you. Enjoy! Cover […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 11, 2022•22 min
Drabblecast 462 – The Tenant
An uncanny episode of original fiction this week on the Drabblecast– we bring you, “The Tenant” by Sarah E. Stevens. Cover created by Bo Kaier in concert with the midjourney text-to-image AI (and unidentifiable, scraped contributors). We hope to experience your enjoyment. The Tenant by Sarah E. Stevens Vanessa […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 03, 2022•30 min
Drabblecast 461 – How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map
Finally, a Drabblecast episode for weird foodies. We bring you a Drabblecast original called, “How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map” by P.A, Cornell. Enjoy… Episode Sponsor– Mothmen 1966 Cover created by Bo Kaier in concert with the midjourney text-to-image AI (and unidentifiable, scraped contributors). How […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 30, 2022•31 min
Drabblecast 460 – Distributed Denial of Sexytimes
Episode Sponsor: Mothman 1966 In this week’s Drabblecast story, the only scenes that aren’t sex scenes are crime scenes. We bring you an original Drabblecast story by Tim Pratt about a dark future of vigilante justice sex toys, called “The Distributed Denial of Sexytime.” Also, Norm and guest Executice Producer Bart Epstein treat us to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 24, 2022•47 min•Ep. 460
Drabblecast 459 – 7099 Brecksville Road, Independence, Ohio
Norm is cryptic this week in terms of offering information on the featured story, “7099 Brecksville Road, Independence Ohio,” by JR Hamentaschen. He will say that that’s the story, and that’s the author. And to listen with headphones on. And also, check out our episode sponsor this week, pixel-pulp video game Mothmen 1966! Available on […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 03, 2022•36 min
Drabblecast 458 – Plans for Expansion
The Drabblecast is molting! Norm shares some exciting news in the intro this week, Drabblecast has launched a Patreon, and a new quarterly magazine, “The Tentaculum.” Also, welcome new Managing Editor Cameron Howard! Finally, we close out HP Lovecraft “Month” with an original story by Aliya Whitely called, “Plans for Expansion.” Stones contain stories. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 11, 2022•30 min
Drabblecast 457 – When the Sun Hits
This week’s show brings you an original commissioned HP Lovecraft mythos story by Nick Mamatas called “When the Sun Hits.” Afterwards, Nick talks about the story in an Author’s Note and Norm gives everyone an existential crises in a Drabble News presentation on The Boltzmann Brain. When the brain is liberated from the body, only […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 13, 2022•42 min
Drabblecast 456 – In My Brain in My Body
Shark week on Drabblecast has never been so unnerving! Enjoy an original Drabblecast story this week from Evie Mae Barber about what lurks even deeper in the depths… The great white looked like he was having a good time, swimming upside down, bone-white belly above water, teeth gnashing playfully. Like a puppy dreams of finally […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 08, 2022•11 min
Drabblecast 455 – How Lovely Are Your Branches
Norm closes out the year and existence as we know it, due to the phenomena known as “The Continuation,” with the Drabblecast annual holiday Tim Pratt story, an original commission called “How Lovely Are Your Branches.” Enjoy! Somebody was murdering people, but the killer’s name wasn’t showing up on my naughty list. That got me […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 01, 2022•26 min
Drabblecast 454 – The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Drabblecast kicks off H.P. Lovecraft Month with the grandfather of Weird Fiction’s cautionary dark fantasy, “The Doom That Came to Sarnath.” There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream and out of which no stream flows. Ten thousand years ago there stood by its shore […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 08, 2021•28 min
Drabblecast 453 – Trifecta: Modern Fairy Tales
The Drabblecast brings you three original stories this week (Modern Fairytales, if you will) from authors Alice Gauntley, Matthew Sanborn Smith, and Kevin D. Anderson. Enjoy! Our birthday was the first of March, and for two weeks beforehand it was all Caleb could talk about—cake, presents, and, most importantly, whom to invite. He would chatter […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 20, 2021•44 min
Drabblecast 452- Watch Anya Blume
We’re getting back to nature this week on the Drabblecast, with Michael Piel’s original story, “Watch Anya Blume.” Enjoy! Anya Blume showered, slept, and showered again. Yes, she thought, she was beginning to feel human. Exhausted, sure, but human. She popped five Advil and closed the medicine cabinet. There, at the bottom of the mirror […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 09, 2021•30 min
Drabblecast 451 – How to Get Back to the Forest
Warning: some explicit language. Join us this week for a little Camp Dystopia! The Drabblecast brings you a story about growing up the hard way by Sofia Samatar, called “How to Get Back to the Forest.” Enjoy! Episode Sponsor- “You Know It’s True” by J.R. Hamantaschen “You have to puke it up,” said Cee. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 29, 2021•41 min
Drabblecast 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. Enjoy! Warning: This story is being presented in it’s original form and contains an instance of outdated cultural language. “Now look here, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 25, 2021•46 min
Drabblecast 449 – The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One)
Dinosaurs gone awry on this week’s Drabblecast! We bring you an original story by John Wiswell called The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One), enjoy! Episode Sponsor: J.R. Hamentaschen’s horror anthology, “You Know It’s True” Free on Kindle Unlimited! Dinosaurs don’t want to kill you; they just don’t care that you’re there. More people have […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 03, 2021•24 min
Drabblecast 448 – Stay
This week’s episode is brought to you by J.R. Hamentaschen’s fourth horror fiction anthology “You Know It’s True.” Grab a copy for kindle or otherwise, here! For our story this week, take a trip with us to the Fourteenth Floor, where you are every guest. We bring you “Stay,” by Davian Aw. You were every […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 06, 2021•21 min
Drabblecast 447 – Echoes
The Drabblecast is on the scene this week, with an original story by Gail Ann Gibbs, read by Starla Hutchton, that reminds us that it’s ok to be a little weird. Or maybe even, SUPER weird… I like the way Richard smells. The next time a psychiatrist asks me what makes me happy, I’ll say […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 25, 2021•39 min
Drabblecast 446 – The Wichita Drive
Weird things are afoot in the west this week on the Drabblecast! Enjoy an original, previously unpublished story about snails of the plains gone awry by Joshua Bush called “The Witchita Drive.” Yeehaw! They were down in a gully watering the cattle when Billy came thundering down the ridgeline on his sorrel mare, waving his […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 17, 2021•28 min
Drabblecast 445 – Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death
Drabblecast wraps up Women & Aliens month with a gritty and intense story by James Tiptree Jr., aka Alice B. Sheldon. Hope you’re hungry! Remembering— Do you hear, my little red? Hold me softly. The cold grows. I remember: —I am hugely black and hopeful, I bounce on six legs along the mountains in the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 21, 2021•1 hr 6 min
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