Drabblecast B-Sides: Recent Episodes
Norm Sherman
The classic story by Robert W. Chambers, this week on Drabblecast Bsides! There are so many things which are impossible to explain! Why should certain chords in music make me think of the brown and golden tints of autumn foliage? Why should the Mass of Sainte Cecile send my thoughts wandering among caverns whose walls […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 86 – The Yellow Sign appeared first on The Drabblecast.
A sadistic tale from a sadistic future on the Drabblecast this week; we bring you a Drabblecast original from People’s Choice Award winning author Robert Reed. Brought to you by the ever-sexy and captivating voice of the internet’s one and only Word Whore. For Drabblecast Bsides subscribers only! A work colleague suffers a stroke and […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 85- Nothing Changes appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Another fantastic strange story sure to blow your mind from Drabblecast author Matthew Sanborn Smith. The local Partyville starts to peel apart around us: the booth, the ball pit, a video game and the netting between them, the pizza on the table, and the table too. Shards of pressboard and plastic fly toward me while […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 84 – Rubble People appeared first on The Drabblecast.
In the tiny lifeboat, she and the alien eat bacon endlessly, relentlessly. They each have their own preference. Hers is the usual, crispy but not too crispy, the creamy fat just firm enough to bite through, the salt making grainy little bumps that she licks off her fingers. The alien is not humanoid. It is […]
The post Drabblecast B-sides 83- Spar (Bacon Remix) appeared first on The Drabblecast.
We take the classic Mad Libs formula and give it an eldritch twist. On this special B-Sides episode turn your ears up for H.P. Lovecraft inspired purple prose with listener submitted prompts…
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 82 – HP’s Mad Gibbs appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Sally was coming down the lake road, so I waved to her and called her by name. I always liked to see Sally. I liked all of them, you understand, but Sally’s the prettiest one of the lot. There just isn’t any question about it. She moved a little faster when I waved to her. […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 81 – Sally appeared first on The Drabblecast.
For Drabblecast Bsides Premium Subscribers this week, we bring you the classic 1972 Full Cast radio production of The Peoria Plague. Don’t worry, it’s just a fictional audio drama! …isn’t it?
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 80 – The Peoria Plague appeared first on The Drabblecast.
I don’t know where it was—that miniature golf course in the sand—but it had to be the Gulf of Mexico somewhere. We were driving from one coast to the other, like always. “The Great Southern Route,” my dad called it. It had to be Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, or Texas—one of them. I was seven…
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 79 – My Father’s Crab appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Drabblecast Exclusive Premium Content for $10/month Subscribers The sky is falling,” Chicken Little said, but of course I didn’t understand him right away. He forgets sometimes that he no longer has lips and teeth and all the other bits you need to produce intelligible speech. I gave him a moment to remember. He isn’t stupid—he’s […]
The post Drabblecast B-sides 78 – The Shadow Over My Dorm Room appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Drabblecast Premium Content. Sign up here to support the Drabblecast and listen! I don’t know how I lost you. I remember there was that long time of searching for you, frantic and sick-making … I was almost ecstatic with anxiety. And then I found you, so that was alright. Only I lost you again. And […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 77 – Looking for Jake appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Drabblecast Exclusive Premium Content. Aimless. A short, simple word. It means “without aim”, where “aim” derives from the notion of calculation with a view to action. Lacking purpose or direction, therefore, without a considered goal. People mainly use the word in a blunt, softened fashion. They walk “aimlessly” down the street, unsure whether to have […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 76 – Sad, Dark Thing appeared first on The Drabblecast.
For this bit of Drabblecast Member Premium Content, we bring you “The Five Hundred Days of Ms. Between” by Joshua Alan Doetsch. Joshua Alan Doetsch is a “sentient word virus spreading across the collective unconscious through the vector of human language.” His writings include novels, short fiction, and video games (including Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey). Click […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 75 – The Five Hundred Days of Ms. Between appeared first on The Drabblecast.
The first time Leopard-Print Girl killed someone, it was an accident. She wasn’t Leopard-Print Girl then. She was Nicole Davis, an urban studies sophomore at the University of Chicago. When she got home for Christmas break, her mom told her things were getting worse at work…
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 74 – In the End, You Get Clarity appeared first on The Drabblecast.
This Drabblecast B-Sides episode features Judith Merril’s story “That Only A Mother” This story is available to our $10/month B-Sides subscribers! Not a member yet? Here’s how you can support the show! Story Excerpt: Margaret reached over to the other side of the bed where Hank should have been. Her hand patted the empty […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 73 – That Only A Mother appeared first on The Drabblecast.
This Drabblecast B-Sides episode features S. L. Bickley’s story “Looking for a Key” This story is available to our $10/month B-Sides subscribers! Not a member yet? Here’s how you can support the show! Story Excerpt: My lover is a used bookstore, and when I have money we play a game. He closes me inside […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 72 – Looking for a Key appeared first on The Drabblecast.
This Drabblecast B-Sides episode features “The Man Who Has Been Killing Kittens” by Douglas Warrick. This story is available to our $10/month B-Sides subscribers! Not a member yet? Here’s how you can support the show! Story Excerpt: So you want to know about the man who has been killing kittens. There’s a little congress of dead […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 71 – The Man Who Has Been Killing Kittens appeared first on The Drabblecast.
This Drabblecast B-Sides episode brings you “St. Darwin’s Spirituals,” a new tale from D.K. Thompsons’s Saint Darwin’s Spirituals series. You can check out our previous installments Heart of Clay, A Last Kiss for Lazarus Winters, and Blessed Are Those Who Have Seen and Who Do Not Believe. One women’s quest for the truth will take her down […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 70 – Saint Darwin’s Spirituals appeared first on The Drabblecast.
This Drabblecast B-Sides episode features another from D.K. Thompson Saint Darwin’s Spirituals series, which includes Heart of Clay and A Last Kiss for Lazarus Winters. This one is called “Blessed Are Those Who Have Seen and Do Not Believe.” This fantastical story follows two sinister individuals and their brush with the divine. Story Excerpt: Despite […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 69 – Blessed Are Those Who Have Seen and Do Not Believe (A Saint Darwin’s Spiritual) appeared first on The Drabblecast.
We came to your planet because we knew that you, the peoples of Kill Bill and Saw and Vietnam and Columbine Massacre would understand us. You could not call us monster, as our subjects had done, and you would not call us morally reprehensible, arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct. We had […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 68 – The Wanderers appeared first on The Drabblecast.
“Fat Jimmy,” said Wilbur. “I told you: Fat Jimmy.” “You told me it was a skinny guy,” said the uniform. “Fat Jimmy is skinny,” said Wilbur. The uniform sighed. “So you bought the weed from a skinny dealer called Fat Jimmy?” “Didn’t buy, just holding.” “For Fat Jimmy?” “That’s what I said: Fat Jimmy.” “Where […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 67 – Bad Shit appeared first on The Drabblecast.
The Drabblecast brings you “Heart of Clay,” part of D.K. Thompson’s Saint Darwin’s Spirituals series. D.K. Thompson was the host and co-editor of PodCastle, a fantasy fiction podcast, for five years, and has narrated audiobooks by Tim Pratt, Greg van Eekhout, and James Maxey, among others. Story Excerpt: Awareness terrified the golem, but the burning […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 66 – Heart of Clay (A Saint Darwin’s Spiritual) appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Three hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snows of Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador’s Andes, there lies that mysterious mountain valley, cut off from all the world of men, the Country of the Blind…
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 65 – The Country of the Blind appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Norm shares the top 10 best (and free online!) post apocalypse short films in an exlusive video podcast. Access Drabblecast Bsides Premium Content by signing up for an automatic $10/month subscription to the Drabblecast. Your support is greatly appreciated!
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 64 – The Top 10 Post Apocalypse Short Films appeared first on The Drabblecast.
There was a buzz at the door. Mike Jansen sighed. Just when you got yourself settled after a long day working on the cheese counter; just when you were looking forward to some quality TV; the door had to go. He’d been standing up all day. His feet were killing him. He nestled down into […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 63 – Doorstepping appeared first on The Drabblecast.
One time two clowns set themselves to arguing. The people would stop, amused, to watch them. —What’s that? they asked. —Why, it’s only two clowns arguing. Who could take them seriously? Ridiculous, the two comedians reparteed. The arguments were common nonsense, the theme was a ninnery. And an entire day passed. The following morning, the […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 62 – War of the Clowns appeared first on The Drabblecast.
I sent this one to The Saturday Evening Post. Three times. They kept losing the ms. I stopped. The moonlight was muted and scattered by the mist above the loch. A chill breeze stirred the white tendrils to a sliding, skating motion upon the water’s surface. Staring into the dark depths, Randy smoothed his jacket […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 61 – The Horses of Lir appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Bob and I attracted a pack of zombies when we stopped to fuel up at the Texaco in Buffalo Springs. I hoped we’d lost them, but hope was all I had. Bob said they were the fresh remains of a high school football team who’d been drowned and de-souled by water daemons at a lakeside […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 60 – The Great VüDü Linux Teen Zombie Massacree appeared first on The Drabblecast.
I try to ignore my brothers and sisters as I do my work under the hot twin suns. They call me names. They call me dreamer. They call me innocent. They call me ridiculous. All the while, I herd the rodents into the pen. I collect animal droppings and scatter them in the garden. I […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 59 – The Sound of Useless Wings appeared first on The Drabblecast.
On a grey misty day in November 2028,the clock in Winston’s room struck fourteen. He’d hacked the clock’s mechanism to make his point. Old-fashioned clockwork was the only thing left that could still be hacked. “Fourteen chimes,” he declaimed into his diary,”represents the fourteen years that copyright originally lasted. But today is the centenary of […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 58 – Copycrime appeared first on The Drabblecast.
The phone bleeped. Northrop nudged the cut-in switch and heard Maurillo say, “we got a gangrene, chief. They’re amputating tonight.”
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 57 – The Pain Peddlers appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Greg jabbed Jeff’s third shoulder, though he made sure he didn’t hit hard enough to capsize the snack bucket. Jeff would make him pay if he did. “Quit hoggin’ the candy. Trailer’s almost over.” Jeff took his mouth out of his food long enough to ask, “What kind you want?” “You know. A softy.” “None […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 56 – Tick Flick appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Something pricked Marla’s hand. Groggily, very much so, she turned over in bed and spoke to her husband. “John,” Marla whispered, trying to keep the irritation out of her voice, “turn on the light. There’s a pin in the bed.” “What?” Her husband rolled over in the dark, and she felt his elbow bump into […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 55 – The Lonely Child appeared first on The Drabblecast.
See, I was comin’ back from a round-up at Deacon’s Bluff – I catch rattlesnakes and milk them for their venom back in my apartment – you’d be surprised how much money there is in that. Anyway, I had a young diamondback tied up in my gunnysack on the front seat of my pickup – […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 54 – Sorry About Your Dog appeared first on The Drabblecast.
- When a spiral staircase appears in front of you, don’t panic. Just know that if you place your feet on that first step, it shows commitment. You can’t go back. You can only go up and up and up until you reach the very top. Watch your step. That’s the main thing to remember. […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 53 – 21 Steps to Enlightenment (Minus One) appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Drinks and shop talk with short fiction editors John Joseph Adams (Lightspeed Magazine), Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld), Scott K. Andrews (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) and Norm Sherman.
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 52 – Fiction Editor Lagerklatsch appeared first on The Drabblecast.
If you get ill after eating or touching something that didn’t make anyone else sick, you may be allergic to it. Especially if there’s a rash. Allergies are caused by your body rejecting substances it doesn’t like. There is no treatment but to avoid those substances. Fortunately, only a few types of allergies can kill […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 51 – Francisca Montoya’s Almanac of Things That Can Kill You appeared first on The Drabblecast.
When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was traveling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corpse may protrude from an ill-made grave. Fear spoke from the age-worn stones of this hoary survivor […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 50 – The Nameless City appeared first on The Drabblecast.
The day she left we forgot to take out the trash. At five-thirty in the morning, I heard the city trucks lumbering down the street with their mechanical, prehensile arms and remembered that we had forgotten to take out the trash. I didn’t care though. I knew that in a few hours I would help […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 49 – Trash appeared first on The Drabblecast.
John was born with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, and he often wondered why. But as a boy, it was simply wonderful to have those abilities. He could lift his father’s tractor overhead before he learned to read. He could outrace a galloping horse. He couldn’t be cut or bruised or […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 48 – Last Son of Tomorrow appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Sure, I know Istvan Horvath. We met about a year ago before Eva died. That’s my wife, Eva. You knew that? Yah, I figured you were pretty thorough…
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 47 – Statement in the Case appeared first on The Drabblecast.
I still remember that cold October afternoon in 1936 when Whitey McFarland’s old coonhound Maggie dragged herself out of the forest, whimpering and yowling. Her skin hung off her sides in red flaps and her eyes rolled wildly. She collapsed on the ground and howled. All us kids loved Maggie, but not one of us […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 46 – The Hodag appeared first on The Drabblecast.
A man in a wrinkled, black suit entered the fairgrounds. He was tall and lean, his skin the color of drying leather. He wore a faded sport shirt underneath his suit coat, white with yellow stripes. His hair was black and greasy, parted in the middle and brushed back flat on each side. His eyes […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 45 – Buried Talents appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Drabblecast Live Video Podcast – recorded at the EMP Collective in Baltimore Maryland.
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 44 – Drabblecast Live Video Podcast appeared first on The Drabblecast.
If you could shrink tiny, and drop down your own throat Like the tiniest of captains on the tiniest of boats I bet you’d be shocked at the things that you saw In the dark and the damp of your damp and dark maw. Your body’s a marvel, it’s one of a kind Which is […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 43 – The Parasite Parade appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Dear Grandma, Your letters beat me to Husa and I’ve told the computer to dole them out at the intervals that you sent them. I got no idea why I’m telling you that, since there’s zero chance you’ll read this. Helps me focus, I guess.
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 42 – Chrysalis appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Norm breaks down the nuances of audio fiction production. Based on fan questions.
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 41 – Drabblecast Presents: Audio Fiction Production pt. 2 appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Norm breaks down the nuances of audio fiction production. Based on fan questions.
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 40 – Drabblecast Presents: Audio Fiction Production pt. 1 appeared first on The Drabblecast.
I nestle the video camera on its makeshift tripod, carefully centering my daughter’s image. She tucks her hair behind her ear and gives a strained smile. She is sixteen, and that hair is long and golden–kissed light brown and straight; she has the gangly grace only teenagers have, that sleek gazelle form. She is wearing […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 39 – Becca at the End of the World appeared first on The Drabblecast.
A special Drabblecast interview with author Tim Pratt. Tim’s frequent appearances include Happy Old Year, Annabelle’s Alphabet, Morris And The Machine, A Fairy Tale Of Oakland, Cinderlands, Angel of the Ordinary and others.
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 38 – Drabblecast Interview: Tim Pratt appeared first on The Drabblecast.
There was a black, one-way window between me and my father, watching my interrogation. I imagined he was looking down at me with the rest of the generals on the second story. Their room looked down into empty cement room where I sat, alone, on a white chair, watching a black video screen. The decision […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 37 – Parasite appeared first on The Drabblecast.
There were always bright rings on the doorbell and smiling faces carrying covered dishes. There was always a peck on the cheek for us kids when grandma came, and always a strong handshake from grandpa. His big warm hands always convinced us that he was as strong as he was wise. All of them would […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 36 – Warm Regression appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Dear Bigfoot, Life on the moon sucks. Dad got home early from the air factory today and I wasn’t done cleaning the dishes from breakfast so he broke my breakfast bowl over my head. Guess I’ll have to eat out of his bowl tomorrow. Dad says he’s gonna have to get a new job. Not […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 35 – Teaching Bigfoot to Read appeared first on The Drabblecast.
A special Drabblecast interview with authors Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, Authors of Mongoose, Boojum, and The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward.
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 34 – Drabblecast Interview: Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette appeared first on The Drabblecast.
After she lost interest in the green eggs—yes, green chicken eggs (taste the same, look dyed, so what’s the point?)—my neighbor Johanna started raising black chickens. Yes, black ones. They’re popular in China for reasons ranging from nutrition to superstition, and she’d gotten three hens and a rooster from a guy in Chinatown—in exchange for […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 33 – Free Range appeared first on The Drabblecast.
“Everything on the list,” says Quentin. “Expensive,” says Dr. Derwent. “You’re sure?” “Dave, I own this fucking place,” says Quentin. He’s taken to swearing more as the decades have worn on. An inhibition thing disappears out of the brain with age, he’s read that somewhere. Angry old men capering around in their institutional PJs, dribbling […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 32 – Headlife appeared first on The Drabblecast.
The complete Black and White Animals Trilogy, uncut. Written by Kendall Marchman, Luke Coddington and Norm Sherman, produced by Norm Sherman. Originally appeared as episodes 11, 22, and 24… Part 1: Secret Weapons, Part 2: Vengeful Hearts and Part 3: Chromatic Conclusions.
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 31 – The Black and White Animals Trilogy appeared first on The Drabblecast.
The grass is cool against my skin. A nice contrast from the burning hot sun hanging in a sky the color of pale skin, sickly and suffocating. I’m naked but I think I’ve always been this way. There’s a moment of comfort, like everything is going to be OK, before I remember that nothing is […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 30 – The Tribe appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Testimony of Witness No. 5671 before the Special Presidential Investigative Commission. Leonard Drucker, thirty-one years old, unmarried, of 238 West 10th Street, New York City, Borough of Manhattan, employed as a salesman by the Har-Bern Office Partition Company of 205 East 42nd Street, New York City, Borough of Manhattan. Witness, being placed under oath, does […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 29 – The Lemon-Green Spaghetti-Loud Dynamite-Dribble Day appeared first on The Drabblecast.
TGIF, a covers medley by The Drabblecast’s Norm Sherman
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 28 – TGIF appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Tim already had his bag and overcoat on and his keys in his hand and was about to leave when Diane stopped him at the door. “I just got this thing working. You have to come and see it.” “I have a bus to catch.” “You can get the next one.” “They’re every half an […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 27 – I Don’t Know Timmy, Being God is a Big Responsibility appeared first on The Drabblecast.
The horrible conclusion which had been gradually obtruding itself upon my confused and reluctant mind was now an awful certainty. I was lost, completely, hopelessly lost in the vast and labyrinthine recesses of the Mammoth Cave. Turn as I might, in no direction could my straining vision seize on any object capable of serving as […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 26 – The Beast in the Cave appeared first on The Drabblecast.
I. The Book The place was dark and dusty and half-lost In tangles of old alleys near the quays, Reeking of strange things brought in from the seas, And with queer curls of fog that west winds tossed. Small lozenge panes, obscured by smoke and frost, Just shewed the books, in piles like twisted trees, […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 25 – Fungi from Yuggoth appeared first on The Drabblecast.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe–ninety-six billion planets–into the supercircuit that would connect them all […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 24 – Answer appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews 5.0 Stars “Technological marvel, and affordable too!!!”After disappointing experiences with related products, I decided to take a chance with the new Picobeast Remote Camera, Model TA-55. What a wonder! The set-up was easy, the instructions clear and concise. I’ve been trying to get my ten year-old son interested in the natural […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 23 – Picobeasts appeared first on The Drabblecast.
It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven’t done anything about it; I can’t think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 22 – The Eyes Have It appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Pabstus Tack came back! He’d been away to sea. The sea was vast and wet. That is what he told them, at the symposium held to mark his return. He was not believed, at first. How could anything be so vast?, so wet?, they asked. He had an implausible air, and a ratty moustache. The […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 21 – On the Return of Pabstus Tack appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, when the world was one world with one moon and the stars did scintillate and sparkle in the sky, astronomers discovered a Beast of a Meteor flying through the vast black toward the Sun. The scientists of the world realized that the Beast, in a veraciously voracious […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 19 – How the Moon Got Its Cousin appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Monsignor’s Log, stardate the Millennium Feast of Saints Blot & Cugat… It was a very special day, so I wore the least tatty of my vestments. The chasuble is only slightly frayed, the stains on the cincture have faded, the alb, granted, is little better than a rag. I cannot get the grease out of […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 18 – On the Vinegar Valves of Venus appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Recorded Live at Balticon 2012 The two began their journey again, stopping at the edge of the graveyard. “It sure looks scary in there,” the little brown-haired girl said. What’s scary is that if you don’t get your ass moving, it’s gonna be Wednesday before I get my freak on. “Yeah,” said Socks, tugging open […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 17 – Exploring appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Seven security gargoyles stare at me from atop the elaborate sandstone columns lining the casino’s walls. Their sharp eyes and oversized talons flex ever so slightly in anticipation of snatching up cheaters like unsuspecting prey… The pit boss watches me too, now, and for good reason. I’m an Ittari after all, a shapeshifter, just as […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 16 – Winning Streak appeared first on The Drabblecast.
The book opens in New York where hedge-fund manager Tony Wolfe- completely convinced that his success proves him a superman straight out of an Ayn Rand novel- wakes up groggy and realizes his new hair transplant appears to have fallen out. If only.
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 14 – Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Clown appeared first on The Drabblecast.
The doctor, who insists that I cite him as “Dr. Franz,” has a habit of holding his hand over his mouth as he giggles. He wears a white lab coat like a scientist from the movies, but this is an affectation. Everyone at Snuggle Club wears the coats, the same way Walmart ‘partners’ wear blue […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 13 – Snuggle the Dead appeared first on The Drabblecast.
“I, Commander Cody Pendant, am asking you, Chief Neo-Eugenicist Shahven Ishtpig the Third, one last time,” the Aryan commander tossed back a shot of vodka. The glass shattered against the wall, “is Project Minnesota Condor ready?” He impatiently tapped his gun…
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 12 – Social Parasite appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Nyarlathotep… the crawling chaos… I am the last… I will tell the audient void…
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 11 – Nyarlathotep appeared first on The Drabblecast.
To start, my pet has no roots and only two limbs. Her bark is soft and spongy. A domed leafless flower grows from her trunk. She’s small; standing a mere four branches high and makes odd gibbering sounds when I draw close.. Recorded live at Balticon, Science Fiction convention May 28, 2010
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 10 – Growing Humans appeared first on The Drabblecast.
The Drabblecast presents “In Search of the Mongolian Deathworm,” a riveting adventure into the desert sands of Mongolia. *This episode is part of our B-Sides Feed. To enjoy this feed you can support the show for $10/month. Join pasty cryptozoologist Connor Choadsworth as treks across the Gobi desert in search of mythical acid-spitting, lightning shtting […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides – In Search of the Mongolian Deathworm: The Complete Nature Documentary Miniseries appeared first on The Drabblecast.
“You’re sure that’s not a vulcan?” Pikachimp, Vlad’s right-arm man shook his head. “Nah. Them’s elves all right. And the tall one’s been shopping same place as you.” Vlad’s preternatural sight was perfectly adapted to the club’s dim lighting. “You’re right. I can’t believe he has the nerve to wear that in here. I practically […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 8 – The Elves Hate You appeared first on The Drabblecast.
“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…”
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 7 – Jeez Louise appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Its extraordinary mouth, its thick and scaly hide, and its single, deep-set eye were wonders scarcely less remarkable than its colossal dimensions; and when the naturalists pronounced it an infant organism, which could not have been hatched more than a few days, public interest mounted to extraordinary heights…
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 6 – The Horror at Martin’s Beach appeared first on The Drabblecast.
You thought the space race with was over? Hell no! That mess is just gettin’ started son… Video by Josh Hugo
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 5 – Pimp My Satellite Music Video appeared first on The Drabblecast.
“I can smell the blood on your hands, I can smell your innocence dead and stinking on your breath!” Max quickly glanced down at his clean hands. Just before he arrived he had washed them with disinfectant soap and meticulously cleaned under the nails.”
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 4 – Support Group for the Supernaturally Experienced appeared first on The Drabblecast.
In America at the time, stuffed full as it was with young men looking for a draft dodge and housewives listless for the next wave of feminism, people needed an escape route. There seemed nothing better than to join the flotilla of balloons, private planes and transcendental meditators who made the journey through the stratosphere…
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 3 – Celestial Duck, Breaststroke to Freedom appeared first on The Drabblecast.
And with a mighty crack the sky opened up! There, sitting on a throne of ivory and omnipotence, was the Lord in all his terrible glory. And God said: “Let there be Funk!” On this episode of the Drabblecast B-Sides podcast, a semi-lucid prophecy of a musically dominated future. Disco, punk, funk, and more are at […]
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 2 – 2135: The Year Disco Came Back appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Awkward applause and laughs are what we live for…
The post Drabblecast B-Sides 1 – Norm Sherman Live at the Sub, Thomasville Ga appeared first on The Drabblecast.