Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Cover for Drabblecast episode 230, bears Discover Fire, by Matt WasielaWe stayed on the path.  The light seemed to drip down from the canopy of the woods like rain.  The going was easy, especially if we didn’t try to look at the path but let our feet find their own way.
Then through the trees I saw their fire…

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Episode Art:  Matt Wasiela
Music by:   Jonny Corndawg (Closing)

Twabble:  “As snakes devoured me, I understood: I never should have shopped at Bed, Bath and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. ”  by  Chris Munroe

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Monday, December 5th, 2011

Cover for Drabblecast episode 225, Trifecta XIX, by Steve SantiagoOnce, at the beginning, you asked why you were brought here. This is what I told you: your parents made a deal. I would rid them of their plague of rats, and they would pay me. I cleared the town of pests, easily done, and returned for my payment. They laughed at me and tried to send me away with less than they promised. Money is not important. Deals are.

Another of the Drabblecast Trifecta series, this time with the theme of Fairy Tale child abduction. A set of stories, written by authors Amanda C. Davis, Megan R. Engelhard, and Steven Saus, featuring kids of all shapes, sizes, and murderous intent levels. Episode also includes details on the Drabblecast’s ‘Become a Tim Pratt character‘ contest. Listen to find out!

Help support Norm’s New CD: The Esoteric Order of Sherman. Pre-order the Order.

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Spec the Halls, EMP Collective
Episode Art:  Steve Santiago

Twabble:  “"Jesus Christ!" Mary yelled when she saw the muddy sandal prints across the living room, "What were you, born in a barn?" ”  by  Chris Munroe

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  •  Feature:  Hokkaido Green  by  Aidan Doyle
  •  Drabble:  On the Inside  by  Kayla Bashe
  •  Genre:  Drama  Fantasy

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

Cover for Drabblecast episode 208, Hokkaido Green, by Jerel DyeThe sound of running water came from ahead. The trail emerged from the woods and he looked up at the side of a rocky hill. A narrow waterfall trickled down the side of the rock, splashing into a pool of water.

His father claimed the water here was the most amazing color he’d ever seen – a vivid blue-green he’d dubbed Hokkaido green…

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Drabblecast Art Reclamation Project Sumi-e Painting Daddy Drinks Because You Cry Go the !#@% to Sleep
Episode Art:  Jerel Dye

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Monday, November 8th, 2010

Cover for Drabblecast episode 186, Garkain, by Jerel DyeHis home is in the dense jungle along the banks of the Liverpool River. Should anyone venture into that jungle Garkain, who can fly as well as walk, will wrap himself around the intruder, and smother him with the loose folds of skin which are attached to his arms and legs.

—Charles P. Mountford, The First Sunrise, 1971

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Clowns Bunnies Other Scary Things, Jerel Dye’s new Comic Book Anthology!
Episode Art:  Jerel Dye
Read by:  Graeme Dunlop, Mike Boris, and Delianna Forget

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Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Cover for Drabblecast episode 171, Mongoose pt. 2, by Skeet ScienskiYou couldn’t describe a rath. You couldn’t even look at one for more than a few seconds before you started getting a migraine aura. Rovers were just blots of shadow. The breeder was massive, armored, and had no recognizable features, save for its hideous, drooling, ragged edged maw. Irizarry didn’t know if it had eyes, or even needed them…

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Lovecraft Unbound, The Burning Zeppelin Experience
Episode Art:  Skeet Scienski
Read by:  Abby Crayden as Station Master, Lauren Synger as Colonel Sanderson

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  •  Feature:  Intelligent Design  by  Ellen Klages
  •  Drabble:  The Zoo  by  Douglas Crews
  •  Genre:  Fantasy

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Cover for Drabblecast episode 159, Intelligent Design, by Brent HomesGod cocked his thumb and aimed his index finger at the firmament.
Ka-pow! Pow! Pow! A line of three perfect glowing pinpoints of light appeared in the black void…

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Jason Rubero and Heitor Pereira
Episode Art:  Brent Holmes

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  •  Feature:  The Existential Lizard  by  Alasdair Stuart
  •  Feature:  Cod Philosophy  by  Stephanie Campisi
  •  Feature  Monkeys Imitating Humans Imitating Monkeys  by  Nancy Stebbins
  •  Genre:  Comedy  Fantasy  Strange

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Cover for Drabblecast episode 152, Trifecta XI, by Skeet Scienski2009 Drabblecast People’s Choice Winner: David D. Levine
J.B. Goodspood
Hub Magazine
Josh Roseman
Portland Vegetarian Meetup

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Episode Art:  Skeet Scienski
Music by:   David Gosnell, Alan Langford, Christopher Willits, Norm Sherman and J.S. Bach

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  •  Feature:  Varmits!  by  Steve Lowe
  •  Drabble:  Pest Proportions  by  Ashley Nerbovig
  •  Genre:  Comedy  Strange

Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Warning:  Some foul language

Cover for Drabblecast episode 145, Varmits!, by Rodolpho ArredondoThose damn raccoons were here again.
I know it’s raccoons. Rather easy to deduce considering the scores of chocolate footprints everywhere….

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Episode Art:  Rodolfo Arredondo

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  •  Feature:  Jeez Louise  by  Robert Scotellaro
  •  Genre:  Comedy  

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Cover for Drabblecast B-Sides episode 7, Jeeze Louise, by Bo Kaier“Jeez Louise,” Frank says to Delores, as he glances from his window at the long line of onlookers—Father Gomez among them. “They’re still out there.”
Across the room their six-year old Chihuahua , Shorty, lounges atop a penthouse of cushions. “I fixed Shorty something,” Delores says. “Should get him going again…”

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Episode Art:  Bo Kaier

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  •  Feature:  Nanuq  by  John Kratman
  •  Drabble:  The Place Where Dogs Go When They Die  by  John Medaille
  •  Genre:  Action  Fantasy  Horror

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Cover for Drabblecast episode 127, Nanuq, by Rodolfo ArredondoHis years away from me had bled any belief he once had in the old ways. I had thought to educate him, to make him wise in the ways of science and the world. I thought after he graduated he would return and learn the way of the angatquq, the shaman, and take his place in the secret circles of the People, as his mother had.
But the University had narrowed his mind instead of widening it. He had turned his back on his people…

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