Drabblecast 387 – Skullpocket: Part 1 | The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast Podcast

Drabblecast 313 – The Blue Celeb pt. 1: When me and Joe got home from Vietnam, we went into business together, cutting hair. Bought a little shop in the old neighborhood and been there ever since. Back then, wisecracking Harlem barbers weren’t a cliche yet — at least not south of 110th Stree... by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

45 min listen

Drabblecast 324 – The Ball Room: I’m not employed by the store. They don’t pay my wages. I’m with a security firm, but we’ve had a contract here for a long time, and I’ve been here for most of it. This is where I know people. I’ve been a guard in other places—still am, occasionally, by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

45 min listen

Drabblecast 323 – Missed Connection: Lawson was already regretting the decision to go shopping by the time he was standing in line waiting to buy a ticket for the tube. All but one of the time- and labour-saving automatic ticket dispensers was either closed or unable to give change, by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

42 min listen

Drabblecast 312 – Day Million: On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl, and a love story. DAY MILLION by Frederik Pohl On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years […] by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

24 min listen

Drabblecast 314 – The Blue Celeb pt. 2: “Get out of sight, Joe.” He hustled into the shop and locked himself in the bathroom. The first cruiser that pulled up had Frank Boone riding shotgun. Less than a minute later, the sidewalk was swarming with cops. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

37 min listen

Drabblecast 315 – Heaven is a Place on Planet X: It was 8:34 p.m. on a Tuesday, and it was almost the end of the world. Actually, the world was expected to end on Friday, at precisely 5 p.m., eastern daylight time. This was not a forecast, or a projection: it was more like an appointment. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

58 min listen

Drabblecast 311 – Birds of the Air: Thomas takes his lunch outside the shelter, on one of the park benches that look out over the interstate and down all the way to the containment pond. He has wondered whether a passerby seeing him from the highway would know whether he worked at the sh... by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

23 min listen

Drabblecast 335 – To Whatever: H.P. Lovecraft Month continues with an originally commissioned story: “To Whatever” by Shaenon Garrity. To know or not to know is the penultimate question in Lovecraftian horror. What mysteries lie beyond the wall of our understanding? by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

34 min listen

Drabblecast 319 – Trifecta XXVII: The Drabblecast April Fool’s Day episode! Recorded live: A Drabblecast story slam that took place March 27th 2014 in Baltimore Maryland at the EMP Art Collective. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

25 min listen

Drabblecast 316 – A Memory of Seafood: This week’s column is not about a restaurant, exactly, but about a memory. A distinct and painful memory, like a softened tooth you can’t help but poke at with your tongue to see if it still hurts. A memory of seafood. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

20 min listen

Drabblecast 327 – Tree, Fire, World: An oral history, recorded in the annals of sentientkind, spoken by Sven Al’bedo di’Cantara, on the eve of the ninth flying. 1. The Tree And so it came to pass, in the years past reckoning, when I served as a scribe in the court of the king, by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

23 min listen

Drabblecast 326 – The Last Tiger: Hunger has made you reckless. You track the sound of human voices through the woods until you find a man and a woman. They are shouting at each other. The woman slaps the man’s face. He presses his hand to his cheek for a moment, by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

23 min listen

Drabblecast 317 – Doubleheader XIV: You do not know me yet, my love, but I can hear you in my future. You are there from the beginning–at first just a few stray notes, but your presence quickly grows into a beautiful refrain. I wish you could hear time as I do, my love, by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

23 min listen

Drabblecast 318 – How They Tried to Talk Indian Tony Down: This happened about ten years ago, out at Tobin Farm. Back in the sixties, somebody bought Tobin Farm for the purposes of holding a renaissance fair there during the summers. Off seasons it became a kind of commune for the people involved in putting on... by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

29 min listen

Drabblecast 320 – Half a Conversation, Overheard While Inside An Enormous Sentient Slug: Thank you, Inspector. I’m ready. Yes, I understand my rights as a resident extraterrestrial. No, that won’t be necessary. Of course. Ask me anything. I only wish to see justice done. It grieves me to say so, but I concur. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

15 min listen

Drabblecast 391 – Day of The Dog: Today, The Drabblecast brings you “Day of the Dog” by Aliya Whiteley. We’ve still got a few bones to pick with our dog-eat-dog micro theme. So if you enjoy last week’s tail, here’s another one to sniff you nose at (and, yes, by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

29 min listen

Drabblecast 331 – Night of the Cooters: Sheriff Lindley was asleep on the toilet in the Pachuco County courthouse when someone started pounding on the door. “Bert!” the voice yelled as the sheriff jerked awake. “Gol Dang!” said the lawman. The Waco newspaper slid off his lap onto the floor. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

60 min listen

Drabblecast 341- The Litany of Earth: After a year in San Francisco, my legs grew strong again. A hill and a half lay between the bookstore where I found work and the apartment I shared with the Kotos. Every morning and evening I walked, breathing mist and rain into my desert-scarred lungs... by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

96 min listen

Drabblecast 328 – Local Delicacies: My boss, Danny, liked to brag that El Corazon was the best Tex-Mex restaurant just off the Vegas Strip. “Because of you, Bescha,” he’d say to me. “You keep the customers happy. You keep me out of trouble.” I won’t say which part of my job was harder. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

38 min listen

Drabblecast 332 – Mister Bob: “It all began with the chicken in the end of the road,” she said. “Pardon?” I gestured. “Could you say that again?” Miss Sanderson reached out and tapped the translation device on the table, then picked it up and fiddled with its settings. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

33 min listen

Drabblecast 322 – The Carnival Was Eaten, All Except the Clown: The magician’s table was covered by a sheet of plywood, four feet square, completely wrapped up in aluminum foil. Sugar magic was messy magic, and the foil made for easier cleanup. Scattered across the aluminum were misshapen chunks of candy, by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

26 min listen

Drabblecast 321 – The Goat Cutter: The devil lives in Houston by the ship channel in a high-rise apartment fifty-seven stories up. They say he’s got cowhide sofas and a pinball machine and a telescope in there that can see past the oil refineries and across Pasadena all the way to the P... by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

46 min listen

Drabblecast 387 – Skullpocket: Part 1: The Drabblecast is finally reborn with this special two-part Halloween story: “Skullpocket” by Nathan Ballingrud! It’s been a long year and a half(ish), folks. Death just isn’t what it used to be. Frankly it’s boring. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

61 min listen

Drabblecast 329 – The Gravity Mine: Call her Anlic. The first time she woke, she was in the ruins of an abandoned gravity mine. At first the Community had chased around the outer strata of the great gloomy structure. But at last, close to the core, they reached a cramped ring. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

31 min listen

Drabblecast 334 – The Colour Out of Space: West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

94 min listen

Drabblecast 333 – After the Cure: I was shot with the cure in the dark. Later, someone would tell me it was a Tuesday, but before the tranq dart I didn’t know such a thing existed. It was either day or night, hungry or sated, alive or dead. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

69 min listen

Drabblecast 392 – Single Parent: The Drabblecast brings you “Single Parent” by Sarah Gailey. Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction, and a regular contributor for Tor.com and Barnes & Noble. Single Parent follows one father’s journey to face the monsters... by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

26 min listen

Drabblecast 343 – Captain Confederation: Captain Confederation was annoyed when he got off the elevator and it showed. It would have been so simple and logical for him to land on the roof of the Superhero Administration Centre, or in the ample grounds surrounding it, by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

32 min listen

Drabblecast 340 – On a Clear Day You Can See All the Way to Conspiracy by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

34 min listen

Drabblecast 330 – Trifecta XVII: For the Drabblecast’s 28th trifecta anthology, we explore ‘changes of heart.’ EARTH MUSIC By Miriah Hetherington A potted arrangement of anemones recoiled from Polbo’s wake of odorous irritation as he jetted through the passageway. by The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

28 min listen

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