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Category: Drama

Cover for Drabblecast 76, Apologies All Around, by Bo Kaier

Drabblecast 76 – Apologies All Around

On August 13, 2008

In Drabblecast, Drama, Sci-Fi

“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, gives us a tender feature about a family of the future, and a unique robot with a special purpose. In Drabble News, Norm Sherman makes all the men jealous with the tale of a sexual powerhouse: a prolific, philandering Guinea Pig! Norm tells us more about the Mega-Beast Death-Match. Feedback is for Episode #70 “Reality Bites!” and Episode #71 “Perfect Down Further.”

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Drabblecast 74 – Witchcraft in the Harem

On July 30, 2008

In Drabblecast, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Strange

“I’m in serious trouble here,” I said to the pale man. “Give me some words of wisdom.”

This episode’s Drabble details a disturbing beginning. The feature is a haunting tale of desire and eternity. Norm Sherman gives us more information on the Mega-Beach Death-Match, which contains a squid with tank treads, a giant wasp, and a robotic tanuki. Feedback is from Episode #96 “The Story-Teller” by Saki.

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Drabblecast 72 – Exit

On July 9, 2008

In Drabblecast, Drama, Sci-Fi

“Lieutenant,” she said, “Stevens obviously has it, or he would have quit this crap…”

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Drabblecast 68 – The Wiggly People

On June 11, 2008

In Drabblecast, Drama, Horror

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 author Eugie Foster. A troubled youth, a view in to his chaotic mind, and deeply effected life. Shake hands with the wiggly people!

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Cover for Drabblecast episode 63, Time Shift, by Jonathan Wilson

Drabblecast 63 – Time Shift

In Drabblecast, Drama, Sci-Fi

A few seconds (approximately 3.21, her processors told her) wasn’t a lot of time- a human brain wouldn’t have had the same opportunity for reflection…

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Drabblecast 60 – Dysfunction

On April 16, 2008

In Drabblecast, Drama

“I have to see for myself, or else I’ll never know. I’ll lie there, half-in and half-out of a dream, listening to them every night…”

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Drabblecast 57 – The Tiger Fortune Princess

On March 26, 2008

In Drabblecast, Drama, Fantasy

“Your daughter will die unborn unless she rides the dragon’s tail…”

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Drabblecast 55 – Circe’s

On March 12, 2008

In Drabblecast, Drama, Fantasy

Feliks Duda has eight weeks left in the country on the morning the letter from the Home Office arrives. They tell Feliks he has to go back to his country. That Feliks can not do…

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Drabblecast 42 – 40 Quarters

On December 14, 2007

In Drabblecast, Drama, Strange

“Your work does sound most commendable, but I’m afraid there’s nothing I can do. Volunteer work, no matter how worthy, doesn’t pay taxes. There’s no such thing as a free lunch…”

Building on last episode’s interest in a Nigerian scam spame e-mail, Norm announces the first annual “Nigerian Scam Spam E-mail Contest,” arising from listener Strawman’s suggestion. We move on to the feature story, whose author Tom Williams appeared before on episode #30, “2084.” This week, Mr. Williams writes about a cynical Social Security officer who tires of the hard-luck cases he hears on a daily basis, deciding “there ain’t nobody but workers and slackers.” A special individual arrives to remind our protagonist of the truth of the social contract.

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Drabblecast 40 – Marbles

On November 28, 2007

In Drabblecast, Drama, Horror, Strange

“Michael…” his mother said, smiling and bending toward him. “Don’t you think we should invite your new neighbor over to play?”

In Drabble News: the field of Taxidermy triumphs with the successful recovery of a famous cryptozoological (mystery) animal. This week’s Drabble, “Shark attack,” provides a surprising role reversal. The feature story, also by author Ayn Sauer, continues the theme of vicious youth. “Marbles” tells the tale of young Michael and a precocious young collector named Alice. It details a kiddie cross, the sort of thing that scars for life, or elicits a frightful smile. Head-scratcher feedback for Episode #35, “The Guilt Trader,” follows.

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Drabblecast 37 – Luna Springs

On November 8, 2007

In Drabblecast, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

They say the gravity’s lessened here, air’s purified, filtered with vitamins and proteins. Even the light’s better – Luna Springs is on a mobile foundation timed to keep optimum reflected sunlight at all hours…

In Drabble News: a young girl born with four arms and four legs in India, believed to be the incarnation of a Hindu goddess, underwent surgery to remove her irregularities. Norm speculates on her attitude towards baby pictures later in life. Continuing on the theme of physical infirmities, the feature story features a sickly and wheelchair-bound grandfather. A man who found a place in a retirement community on the Moon, where “memories come alive with the moonlight and dance with the stars” leaving his grandson with a painful memory of his own. The story author, Patrick Hurley, has been published in “The Horror Library” and other venues. Feedback for Episode #32, “The Warden’s Last Day,” closes out the episode.

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Drabblecast 32 – The Warden’s Last Day

On October 3, 2007

In Drabblecast, Drama

“It was 11 at night, and only a few shouts of men in the lifer block penetrated the concrete walls of death row. My name is Michael Zlocinac, and I am a warden of U.S. Federal Penitentiary at Magdalena, New Mexico…”

On this episode of the Drabblecast, on his last day as warden, the titular protagonist explains his complicated history, and the moral conundrums it presents. A rumination on capital punishment, legacy, and war.

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Drabblecast 28 – The Hog-Faced Man

On September 5, 2007

In Drabblecast, Drama, Horror

I listened to my father talk about the hog-faced man who came into his hospital room and stood at the foot of his bed.
“What does he say to you?” I asked.
My father turned his head and looked at me.
“He tells me he’s too early…”

On this episode of the Drabblecast, a spooky, sorrowful apparition causes a father to question his worldview. What secrets does this nocturnal visitor hide?

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Drabblecast 27 – Crazy

On August 29, 2007

In Drabblecast, Drama, Fantasy

Ma called it the crazy. She always had. The old lady called it something else. Most of the time, before I- touched one- I used the word Ma used, or sometimes I called it the weirdness, to myself…

On this episode of the Drabblecast, the mother of a unique child must guide him towards greater knowledge of the powers he possesses.

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Drabblecast 26 – Once Upon a Hill in this City

On August 22, 2007

In Drabblecast, Drama

Two young men slink behind her…I catch the glint of metal from their back pockets and the answering glint of their teeth as they exchange smiles..

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Drabblecast 17 – Morton

On June 13, 2007

In Comedy, Drabblecast, Drama, Strange

He was a genetic disaster – holding in his impressive repertoire of infirmities: asthma, severe lactose intolerance, a disposition to rashes, acute ugliness, a chronic blob shape and an allergy to anything you can find on the periodic table…

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Drabblecast 2 – Longing for Love: A Unicorn’s Story

On February 28, 2007

In Drabblecast, Drama, Fantasy, Strange

Not your average fairy-tale about an obese squirrel and a unicorn with back acne….

In episode 2 Norm brings us the quirky story of Gregory, a unicorn cursed with bad health and worse luck. This is also the first episode in which Norm introduces the show as: “strange stories by strange people, for strange listeners.”

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Drabblecast 1 – The Coughing Dog

On February 21, 2007

In Comedy, Drabblecast, Drama, Horror

In the Drabblecast’s very first episode, ‘Norman’ Sherman introduces his own story The Coughing Dog. It’s a tale about a family reuniting at Christmas, and a domestic pet with a very… unusual condition.

Norm also introduces the basic concept of the show. He describes it as “flash fiction of an atypical nature […] by very strange people,” and admits that while not all stories will include demons, chupacabras, aliens and yetis, many will.

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