Drabblecast 217- Followed by Will McIntosh

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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 clothes caked in dried mud. Pedestrians cut a wide berth around her without noticing her at all...
In Search of the Brain-Eating Nandi Bear- Part VI
Bbardle- National Geographic Boobs Nathan Lee's Mirrorshards (www.mirrorshards.org) Will McIntosh (www.willmcintosh.net) The Living Dead http://www.johnjosephadams.com/2010/09/the-living-dead-2-2/ Art by John Deberge (jdeberge.deviantart.com)

Drabblecast 216- The Book of Eternity

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His name was Marvin Kasselmeier, though he changed it to Marcus Magnus because he thought it sounded more impressive. He’d been a bright student, solitary and humorless, with no friends, and a single obsession: he wanted to live forever…
In Search of the Brain-Eating Nandi Bear– Part V Evan Quinlan’s Drabbleshire Mike Resnick Art by Jan Dennison

Drabblecast 215- Dread Unlocks by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Drabble- The Story Teller by Steven Lidster

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Okay, no one expects eldritch horror in LA. Not that I know what eldritch horror really is. My old boyfriend (about fifteen boyfriends back) called anything that inspired dread “eldritch horror.” I guess that would describe my entire job, really...

Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Clowns, Bunnies & Other Scary Things
Art by
Bo Kaier
Music by
Gringo Motel and Norm Sherman

Drabblecast 214- The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk Drabble- My Hot Spot by Jessica Broughton

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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 but could not escape, could not stop the unwanted vistas in its mind.

It was silent. And soft. And dark...

Eugie Foster
Returning My Sister's Face
Jessica Boughton
Art by
David Flett

Drabblecast 213- The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft Poem- The Fungi from Yuggoth

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I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim—
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge or lustre or name...

The Fungi from Yuggoth
Art by
Bill Hallier

Drabblecast 212- Ancient Engines by Michael Swanwick Drabble- Impulse Buy by Evan Quinlan

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"Planning to live forever, Tiktok?"
The words cut through the bar's chatter and gab and silenced them. The silence reached out to touch infinity and then, "I believe you're talking to me?" a mech said...

Evan Quinlan
Michael Swanwick
Mike Boris
Music by Eroica Trio, Gringo Motel, 19 Action News
Art by Matt Wasiela

Drabblecast 211- At the End of the Hall by Nick Mamatas Drabble- Mommy Issues by Rish Outfield

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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. I’d stare and stare at the covers through; hourglassed damsels in diaphanous gowns draped over thick slab altars, and the robots, always the robots with their cylindrical torsos and pincer claws for hands....

In Search of the Brain-Eating Nandi Bear Part III
The Dunesteef Podcast
Nick Mamatas
Delianne Forget
The Drabblecast Reclamation Project (DRIP)
Music by Sigur Ros, Norm Sherman, Gringo Motel
Art by Michael Hoskins

Drabblecast 210- Trifecta XVII

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P is for Parade
F is for Forever
C is for Crate
by Tim Pratt, Heather Shaw, Greg van Eekout and Jen Reese

In Search of the Brain-Eating Nandi Bear Part II
Escape Artists
Preservation Blues Band
Art by
Matthew Schindler

Drabblecast 209- Babyhead by Aliya Whiteley Drabble- Pork Wood by Danger Slater

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Cynthia couldn’t explain what she’d just seen in the vegetable patch.

She didn’t want to look again. She considered going back into the house, crawling back into bed with Mikey, and putting it down as a beer-inspired dream.
But that pinkish dome with the fuzzy down had felt soft under her fingers, and there had been the smell of manufactured newness, like a dusting of talcum powder wafting up to her nostrils, as she had pulled the coarse outer leaves of the cabbage apart...

In Search of the Mongolian Deathworm
Danger Slater
Aliya Whiteley
Voices by Veronica
Art by Johan Lindroos

Drabblecast 208- Hokkaido Green by Aidan Doyle Drabble- On the Inside by Kayla Bashe

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The sound of running water came from ahead. The trail emerged from the woods and he looked up at the side of a rocky hill. A narrow waterfall trickled down the side of the rock, splashing into a pool of water.

His father claimed the water here was the most amazing color he'd ever seen - a vivid blue-green he'd dubbed Hokkaido green...

Aidan Doyle
Drabblecast Art Reclamation Project
Sumi-e Painting
Daddy Drinks Because You Cry
Go the !#@% to Sleep
Art by
Jerel Dye

Drabblecast 207- Pinion by Stellan Thorne Drabble- And the Sky and the Ground and the Cold, Cold Air by Nathan Lee

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The witness was beautiful, in a way that was almost hard to look at. His face was abstract and fashionable, all eyes and angles, with a luminous innocence too perfect to be entirely sincere...

Nathan Lee's Mirrorshards
Stellan Thorne
Drabblecast Art Reclamation Project
Art by Bo Kaier

Drabblecast 206- Creature by Ramsey Shehadeh Drabble- The End of the World by C.S. DeFrance

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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 the moon and black as the night, and he came crashing into the city like a silent meteor. The cityfolk watched his approach with wide eyes and open mouths, and then scattered like leaves...

Ramsey Shehadeh
Art by
Philippa Jones

Drabblecast 205- Trifecta XVI

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Drabblecast 205- Trifecta XVI
Just Be by Sandra Odell
Wonder by J.R. Hamantaschen
You Had me at Rawwwr by Nicky Drayden

CastMacabre
Cast of Wonders
Jake Bible

Art by
Georgia Warley-Cummings
Warning: Some explicit language

Drabblecast 204- Doubleheader IX: A Day Out, with Stereoscopes and Hard Choices by Tina Connolly

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Here is the first joke of Betty L. Duncan. Why do the three-eyed aliens bank on the moon? Because there is not enough sun to go around. Press the blue button when you have finished laughing...

Tina Connolly
Art by
Kelly Martinez

Drabblecast 203-- Boojum Part II by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

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The first sign was the chief engineers frowning and going into huddles at odd moments. And then Black Alice began to feel it herself, the way Vinnie was… she didn’t have a word for it because she’d never felt anything like it before. She
would have said balky, but that couldn’t be right. It couldn’t. But she was more and more sure that Vinnie was less responsive somehow, that when she obeyed the captain’s orders, it was with a delay...

Sarah Monette
Elizabeth Bear
Naomi Mercer

Art by Liz Mierzejewski
Warning: Some explicit language

Drabblecast 202- Boojum: Part I by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

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The ship had no name of her own, so her human crew called her the Lavinia Whateley. As far as anyone could tell, she didn’t mind. At least, her long grasping vanes curled—affectionately?—when the chief engineers patted her bulkheads and called her “Vinnie,” and she ceremoniously tracked the footsteps of each crew member with her internal bioluminescence, giving them light to walk and work and live by...

Elizabeth Bear
Sarah Monette
Naomi Mercer
Graeme Dunlop
Delianne Forget

Art by
Caroline Parkinson

Drabblecast 201- Trifecta XV

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Fiddleback Ferns by Sarah Monette
Killipedes by
Jens Rushing
The Difficulties of Evolution by
Karen Hueler

Christiana Ellis
Tina Connoly
Art by Alyssa Suzumura

Warning: Episode contains one instance of the F-bomb