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Drabblecast 211 – At the End of the Hall

My earliest fear, the one I remember anyways, was of great pulp magazine robots with hot water heater bodies and vacuum tube eyes. My brother forbade me to touch his precious magazines, so I wouldn’t....

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Drabblecast 217 – Followed

She came wandering down the sidewalk like any other corpse, her herky-jerky walk unmistakable among the fluid strides of the living.  She was six or seven, Southeast Asian, maybe Indian, her ragged...

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Drabblecast 218 – Orange

I take time-lapse photographs of an orange. The result is always the same. First I remove the previous orange from the spike in front of the black velvet backdrop and replace it with a new orange. I...

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Drabblecast 228 – A Fairy Tale of Oakland

In some parts of the world — Austria, Croatia, Hungary — they still remember. They understand. You can’t have something bright without having something dark to balance it. If you’ve got St. Nicholas,...

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Drabblecast 230 – Bears Discover Fire

We 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....

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Drabblecast 266 – Little Grace of the House of Death

The niece of King Death had not yet chosen a name.  She was the only daughter and youngest child of Death’s sister, Merciful Grace, and everyone still called her by her baby name, Little Grace… The...

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Drabblecast 279 – The Country Doctor

Gardner was drowning, and strangers were laying hands on the bones of my forebears. I felt obligated to see that liberties weren’t taken with my grandmother, my great-grandmother, and other good,...

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Drabbleclassics 1 – Clown Eggs (115)

Author Jay Lake knew about the devil and he knew about the clowns. When his story, Clown Eggs, first appeared on the Drabblecast, listeners said things like “This might be, hands-down, the weirdest...

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Drabbleclassics 11 – The Box Born Wraith (87)

“I don’t want to die in the dark!” “We all die in the dark, Benny…” Norm spends this episode doing his very best cheesy Vincent Price styled horror show host (Note: not a Vincent Price imitation, but...

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Drabbleclassics 16 – Blue (93)

I had a dog, his name was Blue Betchya five dollars he’s a good one too. Come on Blue! I’m a-comin’ too. Glum weather in Baltimore inspires Norm to treat us all to a pair of melancholy stories. In...

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Drabblecast 87 – The Box Born Wraith

“I don’t want to die in the dark!” “We all die in the dark, Benny…” Norm spends this episode doing his very best cheesy Vincent Price styled horror show host (Note: not a Vincent Price imitation, but...

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Drabblecast 93 – Blue

I had a dog, his name was Blue Betchya five dollars he’s a good one too. Come on Blue! I’m a-comin’ too. Glum weather in Baltimore inspires Norm to treat us all to a pair of melancholy stories. In...

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Drabblecast 102 – The Last Dog

He was panting now, his breath coming in a never-ending series of short spurts and gasps.  His sides ached, his eyes watered, and every now and then he would trip over the rubble of the decayed and...

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Drabblecast 108 – The Wicked Witch Looks at 40 (Decades)

The wicked witch business wasn’t what it used to be.  It had been such a simple thing, to lure children with candy; back in the old days when candy had been hard to come by… In this episode’s Drabble,...

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Drabblecast 115 – Clown Eggs

This week the Drabblecast presents “Clown Eggs” by Jay Lake. It is a story that introduces us to old “bull” clown Uncle Swarmy. It’s not just another day at the beach. You’ll learn more about the clown...

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Drabblecast 197 – Death Comes But Twice

As always, he took delight in my interest in the scientific pursuits. ‘My assistant took the journey yesterday, by way of a shot to the heart. Prior to that, our trials on convicts included strangling,...

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Drabblecast 200 – The Last Question

It all had a beginning in the original cosmic explosion, whatever that was, and it’ll all have an end when all the stars run down. The sun will last twenty billion years and maybe the dwarfs will last...

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Drabblecast Fan Picks: The Last Dog

The leadup to our Relaunch Kickstarter campaign continues with this Fan Pick: The Last Dog. This was a favorite of one of our newest team members, Jen Fisher, d(r)abbler of all things and master of...

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Drabblecast Fan Pick: Followed

The Drabblecast Reborn Kickstarter campaign continues! Today, Fan Picks: Followed, by Will McIntosh as chosen and introduced by Drabblecast fan Boo Yeah. Hear her thoughts on an unsettling story about...

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Drabblecast Director’s Cut – The Box Born Wraith

“Just Lookin’ for Chocolate.” Norm and author Kevin Anderson discuss the horror genre, the origins of Cryptkeeper Norm, and of course, the hit story “The Box-Born Wraith” featured as Drabblecast...

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