Drabblecast Classics
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Drabbleclassics 26 – Unreliable Witness (235)
I don’t know if this is the same tape as last time, because They keep moving things around and stealing them. I don’t know who does it. It may be the staff here, or my own family w…
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Drabbleclassics 25 – Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely (113)
A change came over Charlie then, like a cloud passing in front of the sun. He placed his hands flat in his lap, straightened his neck, and took a deep breath. “Us,” he said at last…
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Drabbleclassics 24 – Cinderlands (176)
Dexter crouched beneath the toxic fruit trees in his grassless back yard, turning over black earth with the spade he’d taken from the old man, and every shovelful revealed worse th…
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Drabbleclassics 23 – Synesthesia (92)
They called it “Synesthesia.” It’s when the senses got mixed up and you started to hear colors or taste sounds… Norm begins this with a warning concerning graphic violence and gore…
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Drabbleclassics 22 – Go Beep (173)
I’m a fan of Nirvana. I mean I’m a fan of the band rather than a fan of the concept. Although, hey, what’s not to like about the idea of being no longer subject to torture over the…
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Drabbleclassics 21 – Mongoose : Part II (171)
You 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 wa…
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Drabbleclassics 20 – Mongoose : Part I (170)
Izrael Irizarry stepped through a bright-scarred airlock onto Kadath Station, lurching a little as he adjusted to station gravity. On his shoulder, Mongoose extended her neck, her…
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Drabbleclassics 19 – So You’re Going to Die (149)
The energy and personality of a person can get stuck before it evaporates from our world. Wood is a fair dumping ground. Something about its pore size and how cellulose vibrates. A…
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Drabbleclassics 18 – Sing (53)
Child, you sing all the time- when you’re walking, when you’re eating, even when you’re laughing. You people make the most beautiful music in the entire galaxy…
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Drabbleclassics 17 – Apologies All Around (76)
“Pardon, Winston Sinclair, I am not here to sell you something. I am not here to buy something. Winston Sinclair, sir, I am here to apologize…” Jeff Soesbe, graduate of The Viable…
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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 melanc…
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Drabbleclassics 15 – Creature (206)
And so came Creature out of the wasteland and into the city, bouncing from hilltop to hilltop like a bulbous ballerina skipping across the knuckles of a great hand. He was big as t…
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Drabbleclassics 14 – Jelly Park (43)
“I’m not sure I belong here.” “Then where do you belong?” The others stopped chewing and looked at me expectantly. What am I?… As Norm detailed his Christmas plans, the common them…
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Drabbleclassics 13 – Rangifer Volans (192)
In early December, Brad Miro walked into the office of his partner, Dr. John Estes, and said, “I’ve got our next target. It’s perfect. The public is going to love it.” John closed…
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Drabbleclassics 12 – Gifting Bliss: Fifteen Years Later, Jason Avery’s Magic is Still Saving the World (91)
“When I first met Jason he was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the studio, surrounded by burning candles. The air smelled like flowers and a sort of a fog hung in the room an…
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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 P…
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Drabbleclassics 10 – The Wiggly People (68)
Uncle Karl shouts when he’s mad, and sometimes he smacks Mama. That always makes the sharp things hurt me and the wiggly people come out… On this episode of the Drabblecast, a dark…
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51 min ↗
Drabbleclassics 9 – The End of the Universe (128)
“Countdown commencing,” the computer announced. “Termination of the universe in 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . .” Eight seconds until the end of everything. No Earth, no galaxy, no existen…
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Drabbleclassics 8 – The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk (214)
Achtromagk shuddered, lost in nightmare images: crimson lightning dotting a wasteland, twilight despair and feeble railings, isolation in a mewling throng. It thrashed and twisted…
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Drabbleclassics 7 – The Store of the Worlds (188)
Tompkins sighed. “What happens is this: You pay me my fee. I give you an injection which knocks you out. Then, with the aid of certain gadgets which I have in the back of the store…