Drabblecast 200- The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
25/03/11 11:41
Podcast
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 a hundred billion for all the good they are. But just give us a trillion years and everything will be dark. Entropy has to increase to maximum, that's all...
The Dunesteef
Ray Sizemore
Mike Boris
Frank Key & The Hootingyard
Escapepod
Cheyenne Wright
Phil Rossi
Mur Lafferty
Winners of 2010 People's Choice Awards!
Best Story: Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Best Drabble: Chris Munroe
Best Art: Lizanne Herd
Music by Norm Sherman, Gringo Motel, Clint Mansell
Special Closing Music by 19 Action News
Art by Adam Doyle, Lizanne Herd, Jan Dennison, Broken Cyborg, Aimee Leonard, Skeet Scienski, Josh Hugo
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 a hundred billion for all the good they are. But just give us a trillion years and everything will be dark. Entropy has to increase to maximum, that's all...
The Dunesteef
Ray Sizemore
Mike Boris
Frank Key & The Hootingyard
Escapepod
Cheyenne Wright
Phil Rossi
Mur Lafferty
Winners of 2010 People's Choice Awards!
Best Story: Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Best Drabble: Chris Munroe
Best Art: Lizanne Herd
Music by Norm Sherman, Gringo Motel, Clint Mansell
Special Closing Music by 19 Action News
Art by Adam Doyle, Lizanne Herd, Jan Dennison, Broken Cyborg, Aimee Leonard, Skeet Scienski, Josh Hugo
Drabblecast 199- In the Octopus's Garden by James S. Dorr Drabble- Dead or Alive? by Benjamin Parker
27/02/11 20:36
Podcast
I woke to this new darkness, swirling about me. A phrase sticking in my mind -- "Lazarus Syndrome." What happened to people when they had died, but, for some reason, some lack of death's completion -- some unfinished business -- had rejoined the living.
Drabblecast Fan Archive
James S. Dorr
Music by Norm Sherman, Hayfield, George Benson, Brian Reitzell
Art by Bill Halliar
I woke to this new darkness, swirling about me. A phrase sticking in my mind -- "Lazarus Syndrome." What happened to people when they had died, but, for some reason, some lack of death's completion -- some unfinished business -- had rejoined the living.
Drabblecast Fan Archive
James S. Dorr
Music by Norm Sherman, Hayfield, George Benson, Brian Reitzell
Art by Bill Halliar
Drabblecast 198- Love in the Pneumatic Tube Era by Jessica Grant Drabble- Mixed Martial Hearts by Owen Diamond
17/02/11 20:52
Podcast
We discover old scrolls that we wrote to each other in high school, back in the Early Pneumatic Tube Era. That was back when a PT message took five minutes to get across the city.
We shake our heads. Now you can send a living butterfly to Dubai in ten seconds...
Pendragon Variety Podcast
Peter Diamond
Kate Baker
Art by Matt Wasiela
We discover old scrolls that we wrote to each other in high school, back in the Early Pneumatic Tube Era. That was back when a PT message took five minutes to get across the city.
We shake our heads. Now you can send a living butterfly to Dubai in ten seconds...
Pendragon Variety Podcast
Peter Diamond
Kate Baker
Art by Matt Wasiela
Drabblecast 197- Death Comes But Twice by Mary Robinette Kowal Drabble- Whodunnit? by Jeff Johnston
07/02/11 20:59
Podcast
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, drowning, and beheading. By Jove! That reanimation was a sight to see...
Mary Robinette Kowal
Larry Santoro
Revolution SF
Art by Philip Pomfrey
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, drowning, and beheading. By Jove! That reanimation was a sight to see...
Mary Robinette Kowal
Larry Santoro
Revolution SF
Art by Philip Pomfrey
Drabblecast 196- Moons Like Great White Whales by C.C. Finlay Drabble- Lavender by Justin Quintata
28/01/11 20:22
Podcast
The pilot and her companion skimmed through the atmosphere on organic wings. They had completed their survey and the planet sampling, so this flight out from the landing craft and back was purely for their own joy. They'd timed it exactly so they could see all three moons rise together...
2010 Drabblecast People's Choice Awards
C.C. Finlay
Ray Sizemore
Music by Norm Sherman, Curt Siffert, Carlos Reyes, Jennifer Galatis, The Cheebacabra
Art by Sean Azzopardi
The pilot and her companion skimmed through the atmosphere on organic wings. They had completed their survey and the planet sampling, so this flight out from the landing craft and back was purely for their own joy. They'd timed it exactly so they could see all three moons rise together...
2010 Drabblecast People's Choice Awards
C.C. Finlay
Ray Sizemore
Music by Norm Sherman, Curt Siffert, Carlos Reyes, Jennifer Galatis, The Cheebacabra
Art by Sean Azzopardi
Drabblecast 195- A Matter of Size by Robert Jeschonek Drabble- Ménage à trois by Liz Pennies
15/01/11 20:30
Podcast
"Wow." Tiny Tim shakes his head slowly. Peels off his crimson domino mask and slaps it down on the meeting table. "That makes three of us."
"We're marked men...." Dust Mite's voice trembles. He tugs at the hood of his pale gray body suit. "Every costumed avenger with the power to shrink..."
Episode Sponsor: Orbital Maneuvers by RC Davidson
Liz Pennies
Robert Jeschonek
Music by Norm Sherman, Gringo Motel, Richard Cheese, Vitamin String Quartet, Jeff Toyne, Mumford & Sons, Phil Cuneff, Helen Long, Flopsy, Steve Cornish
Art by Aaron Cambridge
"Wow." Tiny Tim shakes his head slowly. Peels off his crimson domino mask and slaps it down on the meeting table. "That makes three of us."
"We're marked men...." Dust Mite's voice trembles. He tugs at the hood of his pale gray body suit. "Every costumed avenger with the power to shrink..."
Episode Sponsor: Orbital Maneuvers by RC Davidson
Liz Pennies
Robert Jeschonek
Music by Norm Sherman, Gringo Motel, Richard Cheese, Vitamin String Quartet, Jeff Toyne, Mumford & Sons, Phil Cuneff, Helen Long, Flopsy, Steve Cornish
Art by Aaron Cambridge
Drabblecast 194- A Distant Sound of Hammers by S. Boyd Taylor
05/01/11 17:05
Podcast
The horn blares and the red light floods down over the Cragmer's Slaughter House sign and thirty feet below me the gates part wide like a huge and starving mouth. Then pours forth the herd...
S. Boyd Taylor
Kate Baker
Art by Broken Cyborg
The horn blares and the red light floods down over the Cragmer's Slaughter House sign and thirty feet below me the gates part wide like a huge and starving mouth. Then pours forth the herd...
S. Boyd Taylor
Kate Baker
Art by Broken Cyborg
Drabblecast 193- Scales by Samantha Henderson Drabble- Thief by Craig Sokol
29/12/10 16:50
Podcast
One day when a surge of dying summer heat roiled through the waterways, spoiling my fishing, I punted home to find Mama running down the grassy swell towards my docking-place. Hope died in her face when she saw my punt empty and I knew then what had happened...
Craig Sokol
Samantha Henderson
AuralSpice: Professional Narration
Art by Adam Doyle
One day when a surge of dying summer heat roiled through the waterways, spoiling my fishing, I punted home to find Mama running down the grassy swell towards my docking-place. Hope died in her face when she saw my punt empty and I knew then what had happened...
Craig Sokol
Samantha Henderson
AuralSpice: Professional Narration
Art by Adam Doyle
Drabblecast 192- Rangifer Volans by Tim Pratt Drabble- Zuzu’s Bell by Mur Lafferty
25/12/10 20:49
Podcast
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 his eyes. "I haven't even finished writing the paper about the Mongolian death worm yet"...
Download 'Twas the Night MP3
Mur Lafferty
Tim Pratt
Art by Bo Kaier
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 his eyes. "I haven't even finished writing the paper about the Mongolian death worm yet"...
Download 'Twas the Night MP3
Mur Lafferty
Tim Pratt
Art by Bo Kaier
Drabblecast 191- Primary Pollinator by Nicole Kimberling Drabble- Curses, Foiled Again! by Chris Hugh
16/12/10 12:01
Podcast
When Dr. Lopez came for me, I was plunging the geo lab toilet. She carried a red stickle suit in one hand and a spray can of anti-fungal lubricant in the other.
"Great news, Oliver! Big Spike is in season," Dr. Lopez said. "He finally wants to fertilize Thick Root..."
Episode Sponsor: Frank Key's "Impugned by a Peasant & Other Stories"
Chris Hugh
Nicole Kimberling
Space Squid
Art by Bill Halliar
When Dr. Lopez came for me, I was plunging the geo lab toilet. She carried a red stickle suit in one hand and a spray can of anti-fungal lubricant in the other.
"Great news, Oliver! Big Spike is in season," Dr. Lopez said. "He finally wants to fertilize Thick Root..."
Episode Sponsor: Frank Key's "Impugned by a Peasant & Other Stories"
Chris Hugh
Nicole Kimberling
Space Squid
Art by Bill Halliar
Drabblecast 190- The Wheel by John Wyndham Drabble- Trajectory by Nathan Lee
05/12/10 22:56
Podcast
"I'll tell you what's going to happen tomorrow, Davie. In the orning the priest will come here to see your box. It'll be still there because nobody dares to touch it..."
Episode Sponsor: Frank Key's "Impugned by a Peasant and Other Stories"
Hooting Yard on the Air
Nathan Lee's Mirrorshards
Art by Josh Hugo
"I'll tell you what's going to happen tomorrow, Davie. In the orning the priest will come here to see your box. It'll be still there because nobody dares to touch it..."
Episode Sponsor: Frank Key's "Impugned by a Peasant and Other Stories"
Hooting Yard on the Air
Nathan Lee's Mirrorshards
Art by Josh Hugo
Drabblecast 189- Doubleheader VIII: Mermaids of the Old West and Darkness, a Bride by Sarah Monette
24/11/10 11:24
Podcast
They needed a virgin to make a bargain with the sea monster who hunted the waters off their coast, and they were not willing to sacrifice their daughters...
Episode Sponsor: Impugned by a Peasant and Other Stories by Frank Key
Sarah Monette
Kimi Alexander
MegaBeast Finals!
Special thanks to Salim Fahdley and Jan Dennison for lending voices and artistic help.
Art by Tania Henderson
They needed a virgin to make a bargain with the sea monster who hunted the waters off their coast, and they were not willing to sacrifice their daughters...
Episode Sponsor: Impugned by a Peasant and Other Stories by Frank Key
Sarah Monette
Kimi Alexander
MegaBeast Finals!
Special thanks to Salim Fahdley and Jan Dennison for lending voices and artistic help.
Art by Tania Henderson
Drabblecast 188- The Store of the Worlds by Robert Sheckley
19/11/10 12:00
Podcast
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, I liberate your mind...”
Episode Sponsor: Frank Key's Story Anthology "Impunged by a Peasant"
Robert Sheckley
Forever Angels
Special closing music: Pick up the Phone by 19 Action News
Art by Lizanne Herd
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, I liberate your mind...”
Episode Sponsor: Frank Key's Story Anthology "Impunged by a Peasant"
Robert Sheckley
Forever Angels
Special closing music: Pick up the Phone by 19 Action News
Art by Lizanne Herd
Drabblecast 187- Doubleheader VII: A Fool’s Death, Pidgin by Lawrence M. Schoen
15/11/10 21:08
Podcast
The escalator ascends, carting our entire troupe up the side of the volcano, each of its ten thousand grooved steps carved from local obsidian. The handler from Fools' Death is a thin man with too much cologne. He’s a mime, a fairly high rank in the FD necrocracy, but I guess they don’t take chances with volcanoes...
Inflatable Weapons of War
Lawrence M. Schoen
Phil Rossi's Crescent
Nathan Lee's Mirrorshards
Art by Brent Holmes
The escalator ascends, carting our entire troupe up the side of the volcano, each of its ten thousand grooved steps carved from local obsidian. The handler from Fools' Death is a thin man with too much cologne. He’s a mime, a fairly high rank in the FD necrocracy, but I guess they don’t take chances with volcanoes...
Inflatable Weapons of War
Lawrence M. Schoen
Phil Rossi's Crescent
Nathan Lee's Mirrorshards
Art by Brent Holmes
Drabblecast 186- Garkain by Samantha Henderson Drabble- Turning to Stone by Steven Saus
08/11/10 21:08
Podcast
His home is in the dense jungle along the banks of the Liverpool River. Should anyone venture into that jungle Garkain, who can fly as well as walk, will wrap himself around the intruder, and smother him with the loose folds of skin which are attached to his arms and legs.
—Charles P. Mountford, The First Sunrise, 1971
Steven Saus
Samantha Henderson
Graeme Dunlop
Mike Boris
Delianna Forget
Clowns & Bunnies & Other Scary Things
Art by Jerel Dye
Jerel’s new Comic Book Anthology!
His home is in the dense jungle along the banks of the Liverpool River. Should anyone venture into that jungle Garkain, who can fly as well as walk, will wrap himself around the intruder, and smother him with the loose folds of skin which are attached to his arms and legs.
—Charles P. Mountford, The First Sunrise, 1971
Steven Saus
Samantha Henderson
Graeme Dunlop
Mike Boris
Delianna Forget
Clowns & Bunnies & Other Scary Things
Art by Jerel Dye
Jerel’s new Comic Book Anthology!
Drabblecast 185- Horror World 2025: Part II by Kevin D. Anderson and D. K. Thompson
30/10/10 19:58
Podcast
Kyle lifted another lightsaber. “Want one? They’re not as random or clumsy as a flamethrower.”
“Shit. The geek is strong in this one. Sure, Jedi me.”
Kyle tossed it to her with a grin. Hang on Grandpa. We’re coming...
Kevin D. Anderson
D.K. Thompson
Morgan Olson as Grandpa
Tom Baker as Ben
Michelle Ristuccia as Selena
Marshal Latham as Arnold
J. E. McNeil as The Cowboy
Art by Bo Kaier
Kyle lifted another lightsaber. “Want one? They’re not as random or clumsy as a flamethrower.”
“Shit. The geek is strong in this one. Sure, Jedi me.”
Kyle tossed it to her with a grin. Hang on Grandpa. We’re coming...
Kevin D. Anderson
D.K. Thompson
Morgan Olson as Grandpa
Tom Baker as Ben
Michelle Ristuccia as Selena
Marshal Latham as Arnold
J. E. McNeil as The Cowboy
Art by Bo Kaier
Drabblecast 184- Horror World 2025 by Kevin D. Anderson and D. K. Thompson
23/10/10 13:04
Podcast
It started in the cemetery, like these things usually do. Everyone knows being in a cemetery after dark’s a bad idea, which is exactly why Kyle had begged his grandpa to take him...
Kevin D. Anderson
Night of the Living Trekkies Trailer
D. K. Thompson
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Morgan Olson as Grandpa
Tom Baker as Ben
Michelle Ristuccia as Selena
Marshal Latham as Arnold
Eric J. Blommel as Kirkman
J. E. McNeil as The Cowboy
Art by Skeet Scienski
It started in the cemetery, like these things usually do. Everyone knows being in a cemetery after dark’s a bad idea, which is exactly why Kyle had begged his grandpa to take him...
Kevin D. Anderson
Night of the Living Trekkies Trailer
D. K. Thompson
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Morgan Olson as Grandpa
Tom Baker as Ben
Michelle Ristuccia as Selena
Marshal Latham as Arnold
Eric J. Blommel as Kirkman
J. E. McNeil as The Cowboy
Art by Skeet Scienski
Drabblecast 183- Angel of the Ordinary by Tim Pratt Drabble- Dear God by Henry Gaudet
06/10/10 17:26
Podcast
“They will come on bicycles and by balloon, they will arrive in mailboxes and packages of cake batter. They will come like fleas on the dogs and like giants over the moon. The dull shall be turned into nothing by the coming of the angels...”
Tim Pratt
The Nex
Hearty White
EMP Collective
Art by Count Blackula
“They will come on bicycles and by balloon, they will arrive in mailboxes and packages of cake batter. They will come like fleas on the dogs and like giants over the moon. The dull shall be turned into nothing by the coming of the angels...”
Tim Pratt
The Nex
Hearty White
EMP Collective
Art by Count Blackula
Drabblecast 182- Trifecta XIV
30/09/10 17:00
Podcast
Evil Robot Monkey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Character Flu by Robert Reed
Toaster of the Gods by Randall Coots
Old Lady/Young Lady Optical Illusion
Chris Munroe
The Dribblecast
John Cmar
The Secret Lair
The Dunesteef
Con on the Cob
Norm Sherman CD 2-for-10!
Art by Jan Dennison
Music by Norm Sherman, Bernard Pagnotti, Sara Ayers, Gringo Motel, Brian Taylor
Evil Robot Monkey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Character Flu by Robert Reed
Toaster of the Gods by Randall Coots
Old Lady/Young Lady Optical Illusion
Chris Munroe
The Dribblecast
John Cmar
The Secret Lair
The Dunesteef
Con on the Cob
Norm Sherman CD 2-for-10!
Art by Jan Dennison
Music by Norm Sherman, Bernard Pagnotti, Sara Ayers, Gringo Motel, Brian Taylor
Drabblecast 181- Funeral Song for a Ventriloquist by Douglas F. Warrick Drabble- The Wholly Babble Drabble by Dee Brown
24/09/10 23:27
Podcast
A puppet’s words infect. They taint. They do this without ever sounding like a thing, without the listener realizing they have been spoken. A true ventriloquist, as those who are educated and informed may or may not choose to tell you, is an adept in the art of keeping those mouths shut...
No, not the Triceratops!!
Douglas F. Warrick
Mike Boris
Art by Caroline Parkinson
A puppet’s words infect. They taint. They do this without ever sounding like a thing, without the listener realizing they have been spoken. A true ventriloquist, as those who are educated and informed may or may not choose to tell you, is an adept in the art of keeping those mouths shut...
No, not the Triceratops!!
Douglas F. Warrick
Mike Boris
Art by Caroline Parkinson
Drabblecast 180- Something Borrowed, Something Doomed by Robert Jeschonek Drabble- From My Heart, to Whatever the Hell You Have by Nicholas J. Carter
15/09/10 11:51
Podcast
While the rest a' the country had turned away from the biorevolution, we Best Virginians had become magicians. We had learned how to use the tiniest creatures to change the world in the biggest, most beautiful ways...
Robert Jeschonek
Read by Lauren Synger
The Dunesteef
Delianne Forget
La Fenice
Music by Edmund Butt, Norm Sherman and Gringo Motel
Art by Bo Kaier
While the rest a' the country had turned away from the biorevolution, we Best Virginians had become magicians. We had learned how to use the tiniest creatures to change the world in the biggest, most beautiful ways...
Robert Jeschonek
Read by Lauren Synger
The Dunesteef
Delianne Forget
La Fenice
Music by Edmund Butt, Norm Sherman and Gringo Motel
Art by Bo Kaier
Drabblecast 179- The Red Bride by Samantha Henderson Drabble- Twinkle Twinkle by James Shackell
10/09/10 23:21
Podcast
You are to imagine, Twigling, the Red Bride to be a human, such as yourself, although she is in truth a creature of the Var...
Samantha Henderson
Read by Delianne Forget
Gbase.com
Cast Macabre
United States Disc Golf Chapmionship
Music by Gringo Motel, Norm Sherman, Bruce Winter, Scott Shannon
Art by Skeet Scienski
You are to imagine, Twigling, the Red Bride to be a human, such as yourself, although she is in truth a creature of the Var...
Samantha Henderson
Read by Delianne Forget
Gbase.com
Cast Macabre
United States Disc Golf Chapmionship
Music by Gringo Motel, Norm Sherman, Bruce Winter, Scott Shannon
Art by Skeet Scienski
Drabblecast 178- The Tentacled Sky by Jay Lake Drabble- Packets by Rish Outfield
01/09/10 23:51
Podcast
The note itself simply read, "TUESDAY 7:13 PM".
Unsigned, undated, unadorned. Stuck into my door, just above the latch where I'd be sure to find the note immediately upon my return from my errands about the city...
The Dunesteef
Jay Lake
Art by Elan Trinidad
The note itself simply read, "TUESDAY 7:13 PM".
Unsigned, undated, unadorned. Stuck into my door, just above the latch where I'd be sure to find the note immediately upon my return from my errands about the city...
The Dunesteef
Jay Lake
Art by Elan Trinidad
Drabblecast 177- Floaters by David D. Levine Drabble- Research Project 12B by Richard Cassidy
25/08/10 10:42
Podcast
That's when I saw it. A thing -- no, not even a thing, just an impression of a thing; a momentary imperfection in that seamless blue -- that teased at the edge of my vision. My eye flicked toward it, but it either whipped away faster than the eye could follow or it hadn't really been there to begin with...
Ganymede
David D. Levine
Sacred Drabblecast Chalice of Glory
Pendragon Variety Podcast
Megabeast Trading Cards!
Art by Skeet Scienski
That's when I saw it. A thing -- no, not even a thing, just an impression of a thing; a momentary imperfection in that seamless blue -- that teased at the edge of my vision. My eye flicked toward it, but it either whipped away faster than the eye could follow or it hadn't really been there to begin with...
Ganymede
David D. Levine
Sacred Drabblecast Chalice of Glory
Pendragon Variety Podcast
Megabeast Trading Cards!
Art by Skeet Scienski
Drabblecast 176- Cinderlands by Tim Pratt Drabble- Parting the Veil by Nathan Lee
22/08/10 21:04
Podcast
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 things:
clumps of cinders and the dust of ashes; rusting nails, practically dripping tetanus; wickedly-curved shards of brown glass; bullets of various sizes, crusted with dirt; and a foot or so down, fragments of black-stone statuary...
Mirrorshards
Tim Pratt
Just Icing
Art by Chelsea Ragan
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 things:
clumps of cinders and the dust of ashes; rusting nails, practically dripping tetanus; wickedly-curved shards of brown glass; bullets of various sizes, crusted with dirt; and a foot or so down, fragments of black-stone statuary...
Mirrorshards
Tim Pratt
Just Icing
Art by Chelsea Ragan
Drabblecast 175- The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft The Fungi From Yuggoth by H.P. Lovecraft
10/08/10 22:08
Podcast
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books. Such a lot the gods gave to me - to me, the dazed, the disappointed; the barren, the broken...
Circle of 10
Dragoncon
Parsec Awards
Art by Bo Kaier
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books. Such a lot the gods gave to me - to me, the dazed, the disappointed; the barren, the broken...
Circle of 10
Dragoncon
Parsec Awards
Art by Bo Kaier
Drabblecast 174- The Fantasy Jumper by Will McIntosh Drabble- A Drop’s Descent by Carter Allen
07/08/10 13:03
Podcast
"This is the one I wanted to show you," Rando said to his blind date, Maya, who had an artificial eye that drooped slightly, but was otherwise very cute in a chipmunk sort of way.
"Make her blonde," Rando said, while Maya peered over his shoulder. The woman's hair changed from brown to golden blonde...
Will McIntosh
Naomi Mercer
Art by Elan Trinidad
"This is the one I wanted to show you," Rando said to his blind date, Maya, who had an artificial eye that drooped slightly, but was otherwise very cute in a chipmunk sort of way.
"Make her blonde," Rando said, while Maya peered over his shoulder. The woman's hair changed from brown to golden blonde...
Will McIntosh
Naomi Mercer
Art by Elan Trinidad
Drabblecast 173- Go Beep by Aliya Whiteley Drabble- Sunday-go-to-sockin’ by Vela Damon
27/07/10 21:06
Podcast
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 fires of greed, hatred and delusion? Free from all suffering – yes, that sounds pretty good. But if I really wanted to free of everything that makes us human then I probably wouldn’t dig bands like Nirvana any more, and that would be bad. Then I wouldn’t be me any more.
Aliya Whiteley
Audio Market List
Square Two
Art by Lizanna Herd
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 fires of greed, hatred and delusion? Free from all suffering – yes, that sounds pretty good. But if I really wanted to free of everything that makes us human then I probably wouldn’t dig bands like Nirvana any more, and that would be bad. Then I wouldn’t be me any more.
Aliya Whiteley
Audio Market List
Square Two
Art by Lizanna Herd
Drabblecast 172- Trifecta XIII
19/07/10 21:05
Podcast
The Apocalypse Hits Moose Fork by Gary Cuba
Six Drabbles of Seperation by Kenneth Schneyer
Waiting for Grim by Bruce Golden
Eisenbrauns
Gary Cuba
Nobilis Erotica
Kenneth Schneyer
Bruce Golden
The Plitone Revisionist
Paul S. Jenkins
Raptor Gallery
Music by Gringo Motel, Norm Sherman
Art by Arron Cambridge
The Apocalypse Hits Moose Fork by Gary Cuba
Six Drabbles of Seperation by Kenneth Schneyer
Waiting for Grim by Bruce Golden
Eisenbrauns
Gary Cuba
Nobilis Erotica
Kenneth Schneyer
Bruce Golden
The Plitone Revisionist
Paul S. Jenkins
Raptor Gallery
Music by Gringo Motel, Norm Sherman
Art by Arron Cambridge
Drabblecast 171- Mongoose: Part II by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
10/07/10 21:04
Podcast
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 was massive, armored, and had no recognizable features, save for its hideous, drooling, ragged edged maw. Irizarry didn't know if it had eyes, or even needed them...
Sarah Monette
Elizabeth Bear
Lauren Synger as Colonel Sanderson
Lovecraft Unbound
The Burning Zeppelin Experience
Art by Skeet Scienski
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 was massive, armored, and had no recognizable features, save for its hideous, drooling, ragged edged maw. Irizarry didn't know if it had eyes, or even needed them...
Sarah Monette
Elizabeth Bear
Lauren Synger as Colonel Sanderson
Lovecraft Unbound
The Burning Zeppelin Experience
Art by Skeet Scienski
Drabblecast 170- Mongoose: Part I by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear Drabble- The Monkeys by Chris Munroe
03/07/10 21:04
Podcast
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 barbels flaring, flicked her tongue out to taste the air, and colored a question. Another few steps, and he smelled what Mongoose smelled, the sharp stink of toves, ammoniac and bitter...
Chris Monroe
The Dribblecast
Sarah Monette
Elizabeth Bear
Shadow Unit
Abby Crayden as Station Master
Lauren Synger as Colonel Sanderson
Art by Jerel Dye
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 barbels flaring, flicked her tongue out to taste the air, and colored a question. Another few steps, and he smelled what Mongoose smelled, the sharp stink of toves, ammoniac and bitter...
Chris Monroe
The Dribblecast
Sarah Monette
Elizabeth Bear
Shadow Unit
Abby Crayden as Station Master
Lauren Synger as Colonel Sanderson
Art by Jerel Dye
Drabblecast 169- The Reenactment by Ben H. Winters Drabble- Grandpa by Rish Outfield
23/06/10 21:03
Podcast
For fourteen years the North Piscataway High School History Department, under my stewardship, has honored the tradition of Duel Day, our annual reenactment of the famous, deadly confrontation of 1804, between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. And for all fourteen of those reenactments, I, Robert Stanley, have taken the role of noble Hamilton, and Paul Vasouvian from the math department has filled the boots of the scurrilous Burr...
Nigerian Scam Spam Contest
Dunesteef Audio FIction Magazine
Quirk Classics
Ben Winters
Android Karenina
Art by Bo Kaier
For fourteen years the North Piscataway High School History Department, under my stewardship, has honored the tradition of Duel Day, our annual reenactment of the famous, deadly confrontation of 1804, between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. And for all fourteen of those reenactments, I, Robert Stanley, have taken the role of noble Hamilton, and Paul Vasouvian from the math department has filled the boots of the scurrilous Burr...
Nigerian Scam Spam Contest
Dunesteef Audio FIction Magazine
Quirk Classics
Ben Winters
Android Karenina
Art by Bo Kaier
Drabblecast 168- Route Nine by Samantha Henderson Drabble- The Gray House by Travis Scott Greer
15/06/10 11:49
Podcast
Two years ago it must've been. Me and Manny and a couple of the other boys -- Carlos and T-Bone -- met up at the last Dairy Queen outside of Lompoc.
Manny was going on at me about that shortcut I liked, Route Nine.
"I'm telling you that place is God-awful weird, Joe."
Ducks are Bastards Part II: Quack Blocked
Samantha Henderson
Art by Broken Cyborg
Two years ago it must've been. Me and Manny and a couple of the other boys -- Carlos and T-Bone -- met up at the last Dairy Queen outside of Lompoc.
Manny was going on at me about that shortcut I liked, Route Nine.
"I'm telling you that place is God-awful weird, Joe."
Ducks are Bastards Part II: Quack Blocked
Samantha Henderson
Art by Broken Cyborg
Drabblecast 167- Snowman's Chance in Hell by Robert Jeschonek Drabble- My Wife is a Head of Lettuce by Justin Slater
09/06/10 11:49
Podcast
If the snowman, whose name was Wink, had known that the meat man would invent such a rotten thing, he never would have built the man in the first place...
3rd Annual Nigerian Scam Spam Contest
Ducks are Bastards: Part I: Dead Duck Day
Ig Nobel Prizes
Justin Slater
Robert Jeschonek
Art by Skeet Scienski
If the snowman, whose name was Wink, had known that the meat man would invent such a rotten thing, he never would have built the man in the first place...
3rd Annual Nigerian Scam Spam Contest
Ducks are Bastards: Part I: Dead Duck Day
Ig Nobel Prizes
Justin Slater
Robert Jeschonek
Art by Skeet Scienski
Drabblecast 166- Jubilee by Tim Pratt Drabble- The Work That Must Be Done by Nathan Lee
03/06/10 11:48
Podcast
Thousands of fish -- dead, dying, or flopping in the shallows -- littered the shore. A dozen people in their nightgowns, pajamas, or hastily-thrown-on street clothes moved along the shore, bending, exclaiming, whistling, laughing. Some had flashlights, but most worked by moonlight, scooping up flounder, blue crab, and shrimp. This was a jubilee, as I remembered them, a pre-dawn beach-party to celebrate the mysterious bounty of the bay...
Tim Pratt Week
Podcastle
Nathan Lee
Marla Mason
Whiskerino
Locallygrown.net
Art by Sean Azzopardi
Thousands of fish -- dead, dying, or flopping in the shallows -- littered the shore. A dozen people in their nightgowns, pajamas, or hastily-thrown-on street clothes moved along the shore, bending, exclaiming, whistling, laughing. Some had flashlights, but most worked by moonlight, scooping up flounder, blue crab, and shrimp. This was a jubilee, as I remembered them, a pre-dawn beach-party to celebrate the mysterious bounty of the bay...
Tim Pratt Week
Podcastle
Nathan Lee
Marla Mason
Whiskerino
Locallygrown.net
Art by Sean Azzopardi
Drabblecast 165- Doubleheader VI: Ringing Up Baby and Mobius, Stripped of a Muse by Ellen Klages
26/05/10 11:47
Podcast
The baby list is not very long. Babies only come in about six colors — we’re getting one that matches Mother and me. Humans are a lot less interesting than Legos or iBots...
Ellen Klages
Kimi Alexander
Guardians
Urban Fantasy Podcast
M.C. Escher
Music by Kerry Muzzey, Norm Sherman, John Scott Trotter, Aaron Derington, Victor Stellar
Art by Rudolpho Arrendondo
The baby list is not very long. Babies only come in about six colors — we’re getting one that matches Mother and me. Humans are a lot less interesting than Legos or iBots...
Ellen Klages
Kimi Alexander
Guardians
Urban Fantasy Podcast
M.C. Escher
Music by Kerry Muzzey, Norm Sherman, John Scott Trotter, Aaron Derington, Victor Stellar
Art by Rudolpho Arrendondo
Drabblecast 164- The Observer by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Drabble- The Miner by Travis Scott Greer
21/05/10 11:46
Podcast
And so we went in.
Combat formation, all five of us, me first, face masks on so tight that the edges of our eyes pulled, suits like a second skin. Weapons in both hands, back-ups attached to the wrists and forearms, flash-bangs on our hips.
No shielding, no vehicles, no nothing. Just us, dosed, altered, ready to go.
Happy Birthday Robot!
Utah Where da Party Is
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Art by Philip Pomphrey
And so we went in.
Combat formation, all five of us, me first, face masks on so tight that the edges of our eyes pulled, suits like a second skin. Weapons in both hands, back-ups attached to the wrists and forearms, flash-bangs on our hips.
No shielding, no vehicles, no nothing. Just us, dosed, altered, ready to go.
Happy Birthday Robot!
Utah Where da Party Is
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Art by Philip Pomphrey
Drabblecast 163- Once a Month on a Sunday by Ian McHugh Drabble- Special Delivery by Diane Elliott
12/05/10 11:46
Podcast
Once a month, on a Sunday, Mum and me and my little brother Zubby would dress up in our best clothes, Mum would put ribbons in my hair, and we’d all walk into town to go to church...
This week’s show was sponsored by Happy Birthday Robot!
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Online Dice Roller
Ian McHugh
Lizzie Nonsense
Dreamrock
Balticon
Art by Caroline Parkinson
Music by Norm Sherman, Gringo Motel and Thinkmedia
Once a month, on a Sunday, Mum and me and my little brother Zubby would dress up in our best clothes, Mum would put ribbons in my hair, and we’d all walk into town to go to church...
This week’s show was sponsored by Happy Birthday Robot!
Pre-order the game!
Online Dice Roller
Ian McHugh
Lizzie Nonsense
Dreamrock
Balticon
Art by Caroline Parkinson
Music by Norm Sherman, Gringo Motel and Thinkmedia
Drabblecast 162- Birdwatcher by Garth Upshaw Drabble- Wall of Gloves by Matt Moore
05/05/10 11:44
Podcast
I was poisoning crows the day the aliens arrived. They’re smarter than you might think – crows, not aliens – and they don’t go for any of the easy stuff anymore...
This week’s show was sponsored by Happy Birthday Robot!
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Matt Moore
Art by Elan Trinidad
I was poisoning crows the day the aliens arrived. They’re smarter than you might think – crows, not aliens – and they don’t go for any of the easy stuff anymore...
This week’s show was sponsored by Happy Birthday Robot!
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Matt Moore
Art by Elan Trinidad
Drabblecast 161- Higher than Usual by Derek Paterson
29/04/10 20:25
Podcast
"We've got one of them," he told me gleefully.
"One of what?" I asked, bewildered.
"One of them," he said, as if that explained it. "Cheeky sod from Accounts came upstairs and tried to get a coffee out of our vending machine. Can you believe it? Out of OUR vending machine!"
This week’s show was sponsored by Happy Birthday Robot!
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Derek Paterson
Read by Dan Chambers
Art by Bo Kaier
"We've got one of them," he told me gleefully.
"One of what?" I asked, bewildered.
"One of them," he said, as if that explained it. "Cheeky sod from Accounts came upstairs and tried to get a coffee out of our vending machine. Can you believe it? Out of OUR vending machine!"
This week’s show was sponsored by Happy Birthday Robot!
Pre-order the game!
Derek Paterson
Read by Dan Chambers
Art by Bo Kaier
Drabblecast 160- Trifecta XII
21/04/10 20:24
Podcast
Never Forget Some Things by G.A. Semones
Behindeye: A History by Douglas Warrick
Sock Heroes by M. Thomas
Cheyenne Wright
LacyJoyPhotography
Parsec Awards
Art by Bo Kaier
Music Phil Keaggy, Al Petteway, Norm Sherman, Flopsy and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
Never Forget Some Things by G.A. Semones
Behindeye: A History by Douglas Warrick
Sock Heroes by M. Thomas
Cheyenne Wright
LacyJoyPhotography
Parsec Awards
Art by Bo Kaier
Music Phil Keaggy, Al Petteway, Norm Sherman, Flopsy and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
Drabblecast 159- Intelligent Design by Ellen Klages Drabble- The Zoo by Douglas Crews
15/04/10 20:23
Podcast
God cocked his thumb and aimed his index finger at the firmament.
Ka-pow! Pow! Pow! A line of three perfect glowing pinpoints of light appeared in the black void...
Ellen Klages
Art by Brent Holmes
Music by Jason Rubero and Heitor Pereira
God cocked his thumb and aimed his index finger at the firmament.
Ka-pow! Pow! Pow! A line of three perfect glowing pinpoints of light appeared in the black void...
Ellen Klages
Art by Brent Holmes
Music by Jason Rubero and Heitor Pereira
Drabblecast 158- Dr. Diablo Goes Through the Motions by Saladin Ahmed Drabble- Dear Occupant by Nathan Lee
09/04/10 20:28
Podcast
Overlord always goes on like this when all he really has to do is slap down a dossier with “This Guy Needs His Ass Handed to Him” stamped on the cover. I'm just cutting to the chase.
Saladin Ahmed
Victimless Leather
Nathan Lee's Mirror Shards
Dribblecast
Balticon
Art by Skeet Scienksi
Music by David Gosnell, Gringo Motel and Norm Sherman
Special thanks for Closing Music help by Sheena Majdan
Overlord always goes on like this when all he really has to do is slap down a dossier with “This Guy Needs His Ass Handed to Him” stamped on the cover. I'm just cutting to the chase.
Saladin Ahmed
Victimless Leather
Nathan Lee's Mirror Shards
Dribblecast
Balticon
Art by Skeet Scienksi
Music by David Gosnell, Gringo Motel and Norm Sherman
Special thanks for Closing Music help by Sheena Majdan
Drabblecast 157- Brief Candle by Ruthanna Emrys Drabble- BDSM Bordello by A. Bell
31/03/10 20:19
Podcast
The children washed up early this year; we raced down to the beach as soon as we heard. There was already a traffic jam coming out of the inland cells.
My pockets are always filled with notes, so I left them well-anchored on the beach. Cells may not survive without new children, but without our studies, survival is meaningless...
Ruthanna Emrys
Narration by Abby Craden
Additional voices by: Julie Hoverson, Liz Mierzejewski, Abbey Hilton, Sarah Tolbert, Monika Vasey, Small Anklevich
Artwork by Jan Dennison
The children washed up early this year; we raced down to the beach as soon as we heard. There was already a traffic jam coming out of the inland cells.
My pockets are always filled with notes, so I left them well-anchored on the beach. Cells may not survive without new children, but without our studies, survival is meaningless...
Ruthanna Emrys
Narration by Abby Craden
Additional voices by: Julie Hoverson, Liz Mierzejewski, Abbey Hilton, Sarah Tolbert, Monika Vasey, Small Anklevich
Artwork by Jan Dennison
Drabblecast 156- Going to the Chapel by Sandra Odell Drabble- Vow by Nathan Lee
25/03/10 20:20
Podcast
Drabblecast 156- Going to the Chapel by Sandra Odell Drabble- Vow by Nathan Lee
Amilee Jo Baker’s day of wedded bliss was the biggest scandal the congregation of Millton County’s First Brotherhood Baptist Church had endured since Ginger Lynn married that Liebowitz boy from the Army, bless her heart...
Nathan Lee’s Mirrorshards
Lauren Synger
Notoften.com
Jake Bible’s Dead Mech
Art by Jan Dennison
Drabblecast 155- The Second Conquest of Earth by L.J. Daly Drabble- Victory by Conan Campbell
20/03/10 20:17
Podcast
Drabblecast 155- The Second Conquest of Earth by L.J. Daly Drabble- Victory by Conan Campbell
I barely recall how it used to be, before the Kus slashed open our sky—before their ships descended, battering the clouds with hurricanes and lightning. I remember the thunder and the majesty. And I remember the weeks of fire that followed...
Prehistoric Croc vs. Monster Snake
L.J. Daly
Hairy Mango Promo
Art by Chelsea Ragan
Drabblecast 154- Family Values by Sara Genge Drabble- The Stone Who Loved by Nathan Lee
11/03/10 11:59
Podcast
Drabblecast 154- Family Values by Sara Genge Drabble- The Stone Who Loved by Nathan Lee
Thursday, March 11, 2010
All the Single Rotifers
Mirrorshards
Tracy Pfau
Art by Chelsea Ragan
Although she was tired, Wu was careful not to show it. Her pregnancies were progressing nicely. The eldest foetus, Hoo, was about to be born, and she was getting too big for parties, but the Senate elections were only months away and her visible pregnancy gave her an advantage she could not afford to waste...
Drabblecast 153- What Fluffy Knew by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Drabble- The Offering by Liz Mierzejewski
04/03/10 20:47
Podcast
Drabblecast 153- What Fluffy Knew by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Drabble- The Offering by Liz Mierzejewski
Thursday, March 4, 2010
"Her routine was perfect in its simplicity. She spent her mornings in the kitchen waiting for someone to brush her, her afternoons sprawled on the couch in the warm sunshine, and her evenings on the nearest lap. Sometimes she watched the water droplets in bathtub after her people took showers.
Yes. It was a good life.
Until they came....
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Air Out My Shorts
Apparition
Healthcare is a Human Right
Art by Liz Mierzejewski
Music by Helen Long, Aaron Derington, Shostakovitch, Schoenberg
Drabblecast 152- Trifecta XI
24/02/10 20:46
Podcast
Drabblecast 152- Trifecta XI
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The Existential Lizard by Alasdair Stuart
Cod Philosophy by Stephanie Campisi
Monkeys Imitating Humans Imitating Monkeys by Nancy Stebbins
2009 Drabblecast People’s Choice Winner: David D. Levine
J.B. Goodspood
Hub Magazine
Josh Roseman
Portland Vegetarian Meetup
Art by Skeet Scienski
Music by David Gosnell, Alan Langford, Christopher Willits, Norm Sherman and J.S. Bach
Drabblecast 151- The Society of Eccentric Moustaches by Daniel Lemoal Drabble- The Birthday Party by Josh Roseman
18/02/10 20:45
Podcast
Drabblecast 151- The Society of Eccentric Moustaches by Daniel Lemoal Drabble- The Birthday Party by Josh Roseman
Thursday, February 18, 2010
“I’m going to cut to the chase,” Zephyr said. “You’ll never make it as a magician. You just don’t have the moustache for it...”
Ig Awards
Josh Roseman
Art by Arron Cambridge