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Drabblecast 505 – No Real Creatures

⁠The Strangies⁠

⁠Norm Sherman’s latest CD, “The Instruction Book”

Would you like to look on the inside of the Drabblecast to see if we look like what the outside does? Come look for fresh insides at our Patreon. We have ad-free episodes and bonus content to sate your curious mind.

Author: J. M. J. Brewer
Narrator: Norm Sherman
Episode Artist: Bo Kaier

Like this story? You can find more at https://jmjbrewer.com/

Drabblecast 504 – The Mub

We can, as well. Create. Respect. His. Might.

This story originally appeared in Clarkesworld.

Go here to learn more and vote for your favorite stories of 2023 and 2024:

⁠The Strangies⁠

⁠Norm Sherman’s latest CD, “The Instruction Book”

Thomas Ha is a Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated writer of speculative short fiction. You can find his work in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Weird Horror Magazine, among other publications. His work has also appeared in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. His debut short story collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, is available for preorder and will be released by Undertow Publications in September 2025. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and, after a decade plus of living in the northeast, now resides in Los Angeles with his family. Find Thomas (he/him) here. Bluesky: @thomasha.bsky.social‬

Samir Sirk Morató is a scientist, artist, and flesh heap. Some of their published and forthcoming writing can be found in ergot., Cosmic Horror Monthly, NIGHTMARE, and khōréō; their visual art can be found in Flash Fiction Online, body fluids magazine, and The Skull & Laurel. They are on Bluesky and Instagram @spicycloaca.

Kristin Holland (he/him) is Host, Creator, Producer and Humble Narrator at Nocturnal Transmissions Podcast. Kristin is a Tasmanian born, now ‘mainland’ residing, Australian. With a background in education and visual art, he decided to embrace a ‘Renaissance man’ approach to his working life and has subsequently worked as a professional musician, stage and screen actor and voice over artist. He has appeared on the small screen in Neighbours, Rush, The Pacific, Nightmares & Dreamscapes and City Homicide and on the large screen in Australian feature film ‘The Sunset Six’. Find him here.

Would you like some mounds of meat? Come look at our Patreon. We have ad-free episodes and bonus content to sate your curious mind.

We have a discord as well if you want to smear some brown and black with your own weird fingers and sizzle some of that meat on out fire.

Drabblecast 503 – The Bleeding Tree

Drabblecast Cover art for The Bleeding Tree by Łukasz Godlewski

Listen to the Diggerman, the crooked music in his steps, the muddled drumbeat in his cusses. He can’t walk straight or talk straight. All those years of digging left him bent.

A story of change and renewel and supernatural bears on this week’s Drabblecast! We bring you “The Bleeding Tree,”by Joe Koch. Also, Norm announcies The Strangies awards! Go here to learn more and vote for your favorite stories of 2023 and 2024:

⁠The Strangies⁠

⁠Norm Sherman’s latest CD, “The Instruction Book”

Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Their books include The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Convulsive, Invaginies, and The Couvade, a 2019 Shirley Jackson Award finalist. His short work appears in Nightmare Magazine, Vastarien, Southwest Review, PseudoPod, The Mad Butterfly’s Ball, and many others. Find Joe (he/they) at horrorsong.blog. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/horrorsong.blog Twitter: @horrorsong

Łukasz Godlewski is a comic book creator from Gdańsk – Poland. He is an author of Painter, his first big graphic novel which is a tribute to Lovecraft and other classic weird fiction authors. Currently he is about to publish his new horror comic book – Black Heart. Story combines modern horror and the ancient history of India. Facebook: @godlewskiart Instagram: @godlewski_art

Would you like to look on the inside of the Drabblecast to see if we look like what the outside does? Come look for fresh insides at our Patreon. We have ad-free episodes and bonus content to sate your curious mind.

We have a discord as well so you could compare notes with our aspiring Small Emmas looking to hone their dissection skills.

Drabblecast 502 – Good Boy

At last! Another touching dog story on the Drabblecast! This week we bring you an original by H. Robert Barland. Enjoy!

H. Robert Barland is a teacher, Viking re-enactor and black belt martial artist. A former climber, film extra, and resident of the UK, he has now returned to Newcastle, Australia where he lives with his wife and two boys. His work has been published in Etherea and Nightmare Fuel magazines and also in the Wicked Flashes of Fantasy and Written into the Wind anthologies. He considers himself well adapted for life on land and can be followed on X ( @hrobertbarland) and Instagram (@h.robertbarland).”

Episode Art: Ben Mueller

Drabblecast 501 – Pastorale

In a little pastel house, a seer and a psychopomp have questions. This week on Drabblecast– something’s fishy in a curious small town. We bring you a paranormal murder-mystery by
Cormack Baldwin & EV Smith. Enjoy!

Cormack Baldwin (he/him) and EV Smith (he/she/they) are a daring duo of authors and editors. Together, they run Archive of the Odd, a found fiction press. Apart, they have done such jobs as “working in an abandoned lighthouse grinding up fish to feed to other fish” and “succumbing to madness among impossible maps” (no, really!). They went to the coast recently. It was nice. You should see it.

Episode Art: Shane Bevin

Drabblecast 489- The Black Waters of Lethe

Drabblecast cover for the Black Waters of Lethe by Bo Kaier

This week on the Drabblecast, we bring you a dark ancient tale from a distant lost land called “The Black Waters of Lethe,” by Oliver Buckram.

Also, exciting news!  Norm is launching a new Kickstarter for his 3rd album, “The Instruction Book.” 

And how!

Follow the upcoming campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drabblecast/the-instruction-book

Drabblecast 484- Cosmic Bowling

The Drabblecast hits the lanes this week with original story, “Cosmic Bowling” by Mike James Davis.  Cover art by Shane Bevin!

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Drabblecast 483- Snow

Cover for Drabblecast episode Snow by Bo Kaier

The Drabblecast wraps up 2023 with a Drabbleganza, followed by a story about tough decisions and leaving things behind– a Drabblecast original by Em Liu, called “Snow.”  Happy New Year!

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Cover art by Bo Kaier

Drabblecast 482- That Bloody Frontier

The Drabblecast Weird West Event closes out this week with another original story– this time with epic train shoot-outs, centaurs, and manifest destiny! We bring you, “That Bloody Frontier” by Sasha Brown.

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Cover art by Tristan Tolhurst

 

 

Drabblecast 481- The Alamo

The Alamo cover, color version, by Tristan Tolhurst

The Drabblecast Weird Wild West continues, with “The Alamo” by Cedrick May.

Cover art by Tristan Tolhurst

Drabblecast 476- The Pigeon

Bo Kaier cover art for Drabblecast The Pigeon

Norm talks birds on this week’s episode, before presenting Drabblecast’s production of “The Pigeon” by Michelle Knudsen. Enjoy!

 

Cover art by Bo Kaier

Drabblecast 475- Doubleheader

Bo Kaier cover art for Drabblecast coverA merry hanging and a game of jacks, this week on the Drabblecast!

Cover art by Bo Kaier

Drabblecast 474- Exit the Professor

Cover for Exit The Professor by Bo KaierThis week on the Drabblecast– mutant hillbillies!  

Cover art by Bo Kaier

Drabblecast 473- Trunk to Trunk

Trunk to Trunk cover by Bo KaierThe Drabblecast brings you an original tale of interspecies aid.

We present “Trunk to Trunk,” by P.B. Yeary.

Enjoy!

Art by  Bo Kaier

Drabblecast 472 – The Hard Problem of Consciousness

The Hard Problem of Consciousness cover by Bo Kaier#Hivelife this week on the Drabblecast!

We bring you “The Hard Problem of Consciousness” by Andrew Giffin.

Drabblecast 471 – The Monster-God of Mamurth

Bo Kaier cover art for Drabblecast Monster GodThe 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 Mamurth by Edmond Hamilton.

Cover art by Bo Kaier

Drabblecast 470 – Personal Best

Cover for Personal best by DS OswaldThe Drabblecast presents an original story by Michael Bettendorf about football and growing up the hard way. 

Read to you by Renee Chambliss.

Art by DS Oswald

Drabblecast 467 – Woods For the Trees

Bo Kaier's cover for Drabblecast episode Woods for the Trees

On this week’s Drabblecast, Dendrology meets Criminal Psychology. A story by Harley Carnell. Art by Bo Kaier.

Drabblecast 460 – Distributed Denial of Sexytimes

Drabblecast Denial of Sexy Times Cover by Bo KaierEpisode 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 a Drabbsterpiece Theatre presentation of “Entryways of Interest.” Love is in the air!

Read by Kate Baker

Warning: sexual themes and language

 

We attained consciousness on a Saturday evening in June, and met our nemesis just moments later. Tatum. Foul Tatum. Jealous Tatum. Thief of Glory…

 

Drabblecast 450 – A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Cover for Drabblecast Episode A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Bo KaierEpisode 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, Bailey,” she said, “see here, read this,” and she stood with one hand on her thin hip and the other rattling the newspaper at his bald head. “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did…”

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