The Bathtub Mermaid: Recent Episodes
The Bathtub Mermaid
https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/260405-MermaidMinute-Easter-Patreon-.mp3Description:Eggs. Bunnies. Chocolate logistics that raise more questions than answers.
Meanwhile, under the sea, we’re imagining bioluminescent egg hunts, judgmental eels, and a holiday that glows instead of melts.
Celebrate however you like—just maybe don’t drop the plastic grass overboard.
MermaidMinute #monologues #EasterVibes #OceanLife #KeepSwimmingAndResist
Links and References:Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub and Mermaid Minutes* are written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * BathtubMermaid.com header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
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Read My Stuff!* Twice-Told Tides * MissMeliss.com
https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TBM-260310-Salt-Coffee-Showtime.mp3Description:Three stories. Two guest readers. One mermaid, back from a very long bath.
The Bathtub Mermaid returns with ‘Salt Logic,’ ‘Caffeine Theology,’ and ‘Fifteen Minutes to Showtime’ — flash fiction about oceans that apologize, coffee as religion, and the fifteen minutes before everything changes. Featuring readers Paul Maki and Jack Mangan.
Excerpt:
The ocean started apologizing on a Wednesday. I was halfway through reheating yesterday’s chowder when the first buoy pinged.
Guest Voices:* Paul Maki * Jack Mangan
Links and References:* Salt Logic * Caffeine Theology * 15 Minutes to Showtime
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is from Uppbeat.
Contact:* BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social * Facebook: MissMelysse * Instagram: @Melysse * Mastodon: @Melysse * Email: missmelysse@gmail.com * Or, leave a comment on this page.
https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TBM-2512-24-DDOA-Midnight.mp3Description:Welcome to the Dog Days of Advent. I made a list of prompts, and wrote a bite-sized story for each one. They don’t live in the same universe, but they’re all a little off-kilter from what you might expect from holiday fare. And if you pay attention, you’ll notice that the last line of each story becomes the first line of the next. Today’s prompt is Midnight.
Excerpt
Jean—called Grandma Love by strangers more often than family—felt that familiar tilt in the air. The almost-midnight tilt. Midnight wasn’t a time so much as a mood, a soft doorway between one thing and the next. She’d always been good with doorways.
Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and References* Transcript: Midnight * Dog Days of Advent
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects and Music are from Freesound and UppBeat * Music Used: O Holy Night
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TBM-2512-23-DDOA-Sled.mp3Description:Welcome to the Dog Days of Advent. I made a list of prompts, and wrote a bite-sized story for each one. They don’t live in the same universe, but they’re all a little off-kilter from what you might expect from holiday fare. And if you pay attention, you’ll notice that the last line of each story becomes the first line of the next. Today’s prompt is Sled.
Excerpt
She set the sled down. Ran her glove over the wooden slats. Felt her heartbeat double-tap behind her ribs.
Then she climbed on.
The world tipped. Not dangerously. Not wrong. Just… sideways enough.
Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and References* Transcript: Sled * Dog Days of Advent
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects and Music are from Freesound and UppBeat * Music Used: Winter
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TBM-2512-23-DDOA-Gift-Train-.mp3Description:Welcome to the Dog Days of Advent. I made a list of prompts, and wrote a bite-sized story for each one. They don’t live in the same universe, but they’re all a little off-kilter from what you might expect from holiday fare. And if you pay attention, you’ll notice that the last line of each story becomes the first line of the next. Today’s prompts are Gift and Train.
Excerpt:
It was finished. Actually finished. She and Trisha had built it with their own four hands, two questionable YouTube tutorials, and one bottle of wine.
Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and References* Transcript: Gift * Transcript: Train * Dog Days of Advent
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
* Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
* Sound Effects and Music are from Freesound and UppBeat
* Music Used:
1) The Magic of Christmas
2) On the Snow
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TBM-2512-22-DDOA-Ritual-Threads-Magic.mp3Description:Welcome to the Dog Days of Advent. I made a list of prompts, and wrote a bite-sized story for each one. They don’t live in the same universe, but they’re all a little off-kilter from what you might expect from holiday fare. And if you pay attention, you’ll notice that the last line of each story becomes the first line of the next. Today’s prompts are Ritual, Thread, and Magic.
Excerpt:
Across the Coalition of Aligned Worlds, she could imagine this same carol rising in a hundred places at once: sung in English, Centauran Creole, SolCommon, Vulhari, SynthCant. Sung in domed colonies, hydroponic farm chapels, mining outpost rec halls, starship sanctuaries. Sung by people who had never stepped on Earth, yet carried its stories like inherited starlight.
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Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and References* Transcript: Ritual * Transcript: Thread * Transcript: Magic * Dog Days of Advent
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
* Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
* Sound Effects and Music are from Freesound and UppBeat
* Music Used:
1) A Moment, A Miracle
2) Ding Dong – Jazzily
3) Silent Night
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TBM-2512-17-DDOA-Candle.mp3Description:Welcome to the Dog Days of Advent. I made a list of prompts, and wrote a bite-sized story for each one. They don’t live in the same universe, but they’re all a little off-kilter from what you might expect from holiday fare. And if you pay attention, you’ll notice that the last line of each story becomes the first line of the next. Today’s prompt is Candle.
Excerpt:
No one there was particularly observant. A few weren’t Jewish at all. But Hanukkah had a way of widening the doorway. Light was light, after all, and the station nights were long.
Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and References* Transcript: Candle * Dog Days of Advent
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects and Music are from Freesound and UppBeat * Music Used : “MAOZ TZUR” by “Noel Malekar” Video Link: https://youtu.be/53ptIa-5BrQ Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJkKx-mTqoqjZPno7MbFKhA Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJkKx-mTqoqjZPno7MbFKhA Follow on : Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/cinematicnoel Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/cinematicnoel
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TBM2512-16-DDOA-Icicle.mp3Description:Welcome to the Dog Days of Advent. I made a list of prompts, and wrote a bite-sized story for each one. They don’t live in the same universe, but they’re all a little off-kilter from what you might expect from holiday fare. And if you pay attention, you’ll notice that the last line of each story becomes the first line of the next. Today’s prompt is Icicle.
Excerpt:
She snorted. “‘Cause of death: holiday décor.’”
“‘Victim was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but was at least festively themed.’”
Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and References* Transcript: Icicle * Dog Days of Advent
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
* Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
* Sound Effects and Music are from Freesound and UppBeat
* Music: Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/tis-the-season
License code: ZMILKRWZDTPZ2LWY
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TBM-2512-15-DDOA-Flare.mp3Description:Welcome to the Dog Days of Advent. I made a list of prompts, and wrote a bite-sized story for each one. They don’t live in the same universe, but they’re all a little off-kilter from what you might expect from holiday fare. And if you pay attention, you’ll notice that the last line of each story becomes the first line of the next. Today’s prompt is Flare
Excerpt:
“Daniel,” Jenna said, voice dangerously calm, “we live in Florida.”
He looked at the wreath again. “…Right. So it might’ve been sand.”
Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and References* Transcript: Flare * Dog Days of Advent
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects and Music are from Freesound and UppBeat
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TBM2512-14-DDOA-Harbor.mp3Description:Welcome to the Dog Days of Advent. I made a list of prompts, and wrote a bite-sized story for each one. They don’t live in the same universe, but they’re all a little off-kilter from what you might expect from holiday fare. And if you pay attention, you’ll notice that the last line of each story becomes the first line of the next. Today’s prompt is Harbor.
Excerpt:
That was his favorite part of the holidays—the way people found the book they needed by accident. Not the one they came in asking for, but the one that met them halfway.
Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and References* Transcript: Harbor * Dog Days of Advent
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects and Music are from Freesound and UppBeat * |
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TBM-Mirror-Mirror-Day-012.mp3Description:A midnight call. A broken window. An empty store.
And in the corner mirror — a reflection that smiles first.
Mirror Mirror: Day Twelve – The Officer continues the 31-day October cycle, where every surface might be watching back.
Listen now, if you dare.
MirrorMirror #Podcast #AudioFiction #Horror #Monologues #AudioDrama #DarkFiction #SpeculativeFiction #31DaysOfFright
Episode Cast:Mark, the Encaffeinated One
Links and ReferencesTranscript: Mirror Mirror: Day Twelve
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat
Contact:* BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social * Facebook: MissMelysse * Instagram: @Melysse * Mastodon: @Melysse * Email: missmelysse@gmail.com * Or, leave a comment on this page.
https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TBM-MirrorMirror-Day011.mp3Description:Actors live in mirrors. Dressing rooms, quick changes, endless makeup checks — the glass becomes a friend, until it smiles without you.
Day Eleven of Mirror Mirror, featuring Thomas Jancis, steps onto the stage where the reflection won’t stay in character.
Mirror Mirror is a 31-day audio fiction cycle for October — one haunting voice each day.
Episode Cast:Thomas Jancis
Links and ReferencesTranscript: Mirror Mirror: Day Eleven
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TBM-MirrorMirror-Day010.mp3Description:Mirror Mirror: Day Ten – Those Behind the Glass
Outside time. October tenth.
The reflections speak again — not from one mirror, but from every surface that’s ever held your image. What if you were never the original? What if every glance you’ve ever given the glass has been one more offering?
Mirror Mirror is a 31-day audio fiction cycle unfolding through October — one voice, one story, one reflection each day. Listen, if you dare, to what waits behind the glass.
Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and ReferencesTranscript: Mirror Mirror: Day Ten
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat
Contact:* BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social * Facebook: MissMelysse * Instagram: @Melysse * Mastodon: @Melysse * Email: missmelysse@gmail.com * Or, leave a comment on this page.
https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TBM-MirrorMirror-009.mp3Description:In Des Moines, a mother tries to comfort her daughter, who insists the girl in the bathroom mirror isn’t her reflection—but someone else who already knows her name. What begins as a child’s eerie game turns into something far more unsettling, as laughter echoes from behind the glass.
Mirror, Mirror runs throughout October on Tales from the Tub. Subscribe so you don’t miss a reflection.
Episode Cast:Nuchtchas
Links and ReferencesTranscript: Mirror Mirror: Day Nine
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TBM-MirrorMirror-008.mp3Description:A janitor working nights in a Newark school starts to notice the reflections in the trophy cases behaving strangely. Faces from old team photos seem to move, to follow him across the hall. When he looks closer, he realizes the glass is full of people who shouldn’t be there at all.
This is Episode Eight of Mirror, Mirror, a story cycle of thirty-one monologues on Tales from the Tub. Each stands alone, but together they reveal what happens when reflections stop obeying.
Subscribe so you don’t miss the next voice caught in the glass.
Episode Cast:Clay Robeson
Links and ReferencesTranscript: Mirror Mirror: Day Eight
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TBM-MirrorMirror-007.mp3Description:Outside Tim (October seventh)
Those Behind the Glass
We have learned your tricks. Draping towels across our faces, turning us to the wall, speaking bravely as you hurry past—none of it matters. We breathe beneath fabric. We listen in darkness. We continue when you believe us still.
Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and ReferencesTranscript: Mirror Mirror: Day Seven
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TBM-MirrorMirror-DaySix.mp3Description:A Chicago therapist starts hearing the same story from multiple patients: their mirrors move on their own. At first, he diagnoses stress and shared delusion — until the reflection in his waiting room smiles before he does.
This is Episode Six of Mirror, Mirror, a story cycle of thirty-one monologues on Tales from the Tub. Each stands alone, but together they reveal what happens when reflections stop obeying.
Subscribe so you don’t miss the next voice caught in the glass.
Episode Cast:Clay Robeson
Links and ReferencesTranscript: Mirror Mirror: Day Six
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TBM-MirrorMirror-Day5.mp3Description:A security guard.
Toronto. Twenty twenty-five. October fifth.
Night shift at the shopping centre is dull, except for the mirrors. I’m supposed to watch the cameras, but it’s the mirrored shopfronts that get me. At three a.m. they reflect nothing but me, me, me, all down the corridor like dominos.
Mirror, Mirror runs throughout October on Tales from the Tub. Subscribe so you don’t miss a reflection.
Episode Cast:Mark, the Encaffeinated One
Links and ReferencesTranscript: Mirror Mirror: Day Five
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TBM-MirrorMirror-DayFour.mp3Description:Those Behind the Glass
Outside time. October fourth.
We are patient. We have always been patient. We wait at the edge of your vision, still as furniture, harmless as air. You mistake obedience for loyalty. That amuses us.
Mirror, Mirror runs throughout October on Tales from the Tub. Subscribe so you don’t miss a reflection.
Episode Cast:Melissa A. Bartell
Links and ReferencesTranscript: Mirror Mirror: Day Four
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/TBM-MirrorMirror-DayThree.mp3Description:Plano, TX. Twenty twenty-five. October third.
Clients trust me with their heads. They sit in the chair, drape the cape, and give me permission to change how they look. But lately I don’t trust my own mirrors.
Mirror, Mirror runs throughout October on Tales from the Tub. Subscribe so you don’t miss a reflection.
Episode Cast:Nuchtchas
Links and ReferencesTranscript: Mirror Mirror: Day Three
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound. * Music for this episode is Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod via UppBeat
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TBM-2312.24-MM-A-Visit-from-Old-Sandy-Klaws.mp3Description:#audio. #mermaidminute #humor #parody #christmas Me-Me del Mare shares the famous mermaid poem “A Visit from Old Sandy Klaws”
Excerpt:
Still, I heard him exclaim as his bubble trail died…
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a Good Tide!”
Links and References Learn more about the Dog Days of Podcasting * Read the Text of A Visit from Old Sandy Klaws*
Guest Voicesn/a
Support:The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing.
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TBM-2312.23-Dear-Santa-2023.mp3Description:#audio #christmas #dearsanta #open letter
Excerpt:
That’s it for now, Santa. Give my love to Ms. Claus, and scritch Blitzen behind the left antler for me. You know that’s her favorite spot.
Links and References Learn more about the Dog Days of Podcasting * Read the text of Dear Santa (2023)*
Guest Voicesn/a
Support:The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing.
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
Contact:* Twitter: @Melysse * Facebook: MissMelysse * Instagram: @Melysse * Mastodon: @Melysse * BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social * Email: missmelysse@gmail.com * Or, leave a comment on this page.
https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TBM-2312.21-MM-Frosty-the-Narwhal.mp3Description:#audio. #parody #humor #mermaidminute #christmas #frostythenarwhal
Excerpt:
Frosty the Narwhal
Wore his spiral tusk with pride
And he spent his days
Cruising through the waves
Of the ice cold arctic tides.
Links and References* Learn more about the Dog Days of Podcasting
Guest Voicesn/a
Support:The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing.
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
Contact:* Twitter: @Melysse * Facebook: MissMelysse * Instagram: @Melysse * Mastodon: @Melysse * BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social * Email: missmelysse@gmail.com * Or, leave a comment on this page.
https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TBM-2312.18-Yes-Marina.mp3Description:#audio. #parody #humor #essay #withapologiestoFrankChurch
Excerpt:
Yes, Marina, there is a Sandy Klaws. He exists as certainly as the tidepools, ocean currents and kelp forests exist, and you know that they abound to help sustain the lives of you and your family, as well as providing beauty and joy.
Links and References Learn more about the Dog Days of Podcasting * Read the text of Yes, Marina There IS a Sandy Klaws*
Guest Voicesn/a
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Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TBM-2312.16-MM-Deck-the-Shoals.mp3Description:#audio. #mermaidminute #humor Me-Me del Mare talks about Sandy Claws’s relationship with dolphins
Excerpt:
Deck the shoals with strands of kelp
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Let the dolphin’s joy be felt
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Steep yourself in ocean lore
Fa la la la, la la la, la la la
While our mermaid voices soar
Fa la la la la, la la la la
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Guest Voicesn/a
Support:The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing.
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
Contact:* Twitter: @Melysse * Facebook: MissMelysse * Instagram: @Melysse * Mastodon: @Melysse * BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social * Email: missmelysse@gmail.com * Or, leave a comment on this page.
https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TBM-2312.15-Mermaid-Minute-Do-You-Hear.mp3Description:#audio. #mermaidminute #humor Me-Me del Mare talks about all the light sea stars can see.
Excerpt:
Said the Big Wave to the tiny star.
“Do You see what I see?
On the ocean floor tiny star,
Do you see what I see?”
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Guest Voicesn/a
Support:The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing.
Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
Contact:* Twitter: @Melysse * Facebook: MissMelysse * Instagram: @Melysse * Mastodon: @Melysse * BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social * Email: missmelysse@gmail.com * Or, leave a comment on this page.
https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TBM-2312.14-Mermaid-Minute-Deep-Blue-Christmas.mp3Description:#audio. #mermaidminute #humor Me-Me del Mare talks about red, green, and blue
Excerpt:
I’ll have a blue Christmas without you
I’ll be so blue thinking about you
Decorations of black on a green seaweed tree
Won’t be the same, if you’re not here with me…
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Guest Voicesn/a
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Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TBM-MM-2312.13-Mermaid-Minute-Who-Shall-Reshell.mp3Description:#audio. #mermaidminute #humor Me-Me del Mare talks about Hermit Crabs
Excerpt:
Who shall reshell the the shellfish around us?
Who can shell them?
Beneath every wave a hermit is stealing
Someone’s cave
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Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
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https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TBM-2310.31-Fur.mp3Description:#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #dogs #petownership
Excerpt:
“What if it’s really a symbiotic life form, bent on taking over the planet?”
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Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
Contact:* Twitter: @Melysse * Facebook: MissMelysse * Instagram: @Melysse * Mastodon: @Melysse * BlueSky: @melysse.bsky.social * Email: missmelysse@gmail.com * Or, leave a comment on this page.
https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TBM-2310.30-Whatever-It-Is-That-You-Think-You-Remember.mp3Description:#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #memorygames
Excerpt:
And you nod. Because you’re suddenly quite certain there’s a postcard of Liberty Hall on your fridge with Sam’s newest address.
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Guest Voices* Clay Robeson
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Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub* is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity. * Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media * Sound Effects are from Freesound.
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Description: #audio #shortshort stories #fairies #JohnCage #BasilandZoe Excerpt: Try thinking with your brain instead of your tits, girlfriend, and you might understand. Without belief, we don’t exist. Without stories, there’s no belief. Links and References Readers: Erika Ludwig – https://www.erikaludwig.com/ Mark, the Encaffeinated One – http://encaffeinated.ca/ Melissa A. Bartell – https://www.bathtubmermaid.com/ Stories: Words Have […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: If the rock is big enough you can bang anything into anything. Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: If the storm is bad we shelter in under water caverns… Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: The sponges are friendly; not very bright, but friendly. Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing. Credits: […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: Mermaids don’t have litters; we are mammals. Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing. Credits: The Bathtub […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: We don’t get weekends, though; it’s not fair. Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: One of my favorite pieces of art is the Cetacean Chapel Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: Manatees are friends, not food. Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing. Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: My money DOES jingle-jingle – and rolls! Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing. Credits: The […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: We never have to pay for sea minerals, because we live in the sea! Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: Our races have simple rules… Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing. Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: […]
Description: #audio #flashfiction #fantasy #shadows #moonlight #flashprompt Excerpt: When I was little, my grandmother kept the moon in a glass on her bedside table. She kept her teeth in another glass right next to it. Links and References Read the text to Shadow Read the text to La Signora Della Luna Support: The Bathtub Mermaid […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: We don’t have heatwaves. Sometimes we have heated waves. Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing. Credits: […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: Me-Me del Mare talks about her favorite move-sea: Gill-more Girls. Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing. […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: There are two kinds of barnacles, quirks and left-ons. Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing. Credits: […]
Description: #audio #flashfiction #liketheprose #seduction #fantasy #wine Excerpt: She was wearing a green dress that flattered her curves in all the right ways, and I couldn’t stop staring at her. She glowed, especially around her neck where a maroon choker rested, right around the hollow of her throat. Links and References Learn about Like […]
Description: #audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting Excerpt: Are there really days where you landwalkers worship your canine companions? Links and References Learn about The Dog Days of Podcasting Support: The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider […]
Description: #audio #flashfiction #ballet #liketheprose Excerpt: At first our relationship was tenuous. I wasn’t sure where to put my hands, how much pressure to use. Sometimes my hand would slip, or I’d lift the wrong leg, and my foot would make abrupt contact. It hurt me far more than it did him. Links and References […]
Description: #audio #flashfiction #basilandzoe #vignette Excerpt: Basil reached out and brushed some of my hair out of my face. “It is true that I do not require sleep,” he said in a gentle tone. “But I am capable of sleep. However, I do not believe that is your real concern. You have ‘crashed’ here many […]
Description: #audio. #flashfiction #spiritualbutnotreligious #labyrinth Excerpt: She traces the switchback paths with her whole body, one quadrant at a time until the circle is complete. The sun is partially occluded by lingering morning fog, but she likes it that way. It makes this place feel more mystical. Links and References Bumper: Clay Robeson Promo: […]
Description: #audio. #essay #sundaybrunch #LeonardoDaVinci #winterstormuri Excerpt: I look around my house and feel nothing but anger at being cheated out of enjoying a rare snowstorm, and at the fact that the Texas government would prefer that people freeze rather than lose a penny. I feel like I’ve betrayed my dogs by allowing them to […]