The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

The Drabblecast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that offers strange stories for strange listeners.

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Nov 16, 2015 · 26 min
Drabblecast 371 – Old Dead Futures
There are two things I love, and one is the tiny grey owl outside my window. He is not afraid of me. He hoots and hops to my windowsill so I can stroke his downy head and feed him worms I’ve saved in my pocket. It is hard to get the worms from my pocket, […]
Sep 13, 2015 · 39 min
Drabblecast 370 – The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth
The Drabblecast presents: “The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth” by Caroline M. Yoachim. This is a new take on the classic Hans Christian Andersen fish tale, replete with all the Lovecraftian lore you should expect from The Drabblecast! Story Excerpt: Tomiko knelt at the table, across from her father, carefully holding her back rigid and […]
Sep 6, 2015 · 22 min
Drabblecast 369 – In The Walls
The deadliest things in war are not bullets and guns, but hunger and desperation. I’m hungry. Penny gets the bed tonight, I’m on watch, Erik is out looting for food and supplies. If he were white, he tells us seriously, the press would say he was scavenging. But for him, it’s looting. Not that there’s […]
Aug 30, 2015 · 24 min
Drabblecast 368 – Restless in R’lyeh
Dear Doctor Saperstein, I’m a 44-year-old librarian from Kansas and a loyal reader of askdoctorsaperstein.com. Last night, after a relaxing day spent gardening, binge-watching “America’s Got Talent,” and organizing my snowglobe collection, I had a nightmare. A hideous octopus-headed monster performed a ukulele solo on “America’s Got Talent,” then killed and ate Howard Stern. Afterwards, […]
Aug 20, 2015 · 1 hr 16 min
Drabblecast 367 – The Whisperer in Darkness pt. 2
Then, apparently crossing my incoherent note and reaching me Saturday afternoon, September 8th, came that curiously different and calming letter neatly typed on a new machine; that strange letter of reassurance and invitation which must have marked so prodigious a transition in the whole nightmare drama of the lonely hills. Again I will quote from […]
Aug 9, 2015 · 1 hr 31 min
Drabblecast 366 – The Whisperer in Darkness pt. 1
Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end. To say that a mental shock was the cause of what I inferred – that last straw which sent me racing out of the lonely Akeley farmhouse and through the wild domed hills of Vermont in a commandeered motor […]
Jul 13, 2015 · 36 min
Drabblecast 365 – This Secular Technology
Leah woke up, said the blessing upon waking, then turned on her overlay with a mental command. She hissed with displeasure — it was a _gevurah_ day, again. She was supposed to contemplate restriction, discipline, withdrawal. She was beginning to wonder if her teachers were doing this on purpose; the assignments were said to be […]
Jul 6, 2015 · 25 min
Drabblecast 364 – All of Our Past Places
Aoife always told me that you could go anywhere, as long as you had the right map. So when it happened, my first thought, when I let myself into her apartment after not hearing from her for three days, was this weird feeling of pride. She’d done it. She was gone. All of […]
Jul 4, 2015 · 29 min
Drabblecast 363 – The Totals
Clutch has killed somebody recently. This goes without saying. For as long as Clutch can remember, he has always killed somebody “recently.” If not within the last few hours, then certainly within the last few days. He may have gone as long as a couple of weeks without, from time to time, when circumstances conspired […]
Jun 15, 2015 · 38 min
Drabblecast 362 – Starter House
Dale looked up through the ribbed Lucite dome of Asteroid Cintas II, his eyes lit from within by thoughts of a bright future. “I never thought,” he said, “I’d own a purebred house.” Pam locked her eyes on his. “I knew you would. I knew we would. This makes it all worth it.” They kissed. […]
Jun 10, 2015 · 28 min
Drabblecast 361 – Time to Say Goodnight
“Then Duck left Mr. Tomkin’s farm and went to swim in Glacier Lake, just like he’d always wanted.” Mommy looked up from the last page, but Clara wasn’t sleeping. “And then what did Duck do?” Clara asked. “That’s all there is.” “Duck died?” Mommy had explained about dying on the way home from visiting Grandpa. […]
Jun 1, 2015 · 35 min
Drabblecast 360 – Trifecta: Locked Boxes
I didn’t kill God; we should clear that up right away. I just captured him and put him in a little box. It sounds harder than it actually was. Hannah helped me make it. Her dark, sad eyes so serious and focused behind the wire-rimmed glasses she always wore, her slender fingers tracing the passages […]
May 9, 2015 · 32 min
Drabblecast 359 – Trifecta: Unnatural Growth
My twin brother had been a dry-eyed baby, and he grew into a dry-eyed boy. “Yaakov, why don’t you ever cry?” I asked him the day we buried my uncle’s family. He shrugged. “Maybe you carry all the tears for both of us, Anna.” I thought he might be right. In the past month I […]
May 4, 2015 · 23 min
Drabblecast 358 – DoubleHeader: Rachael K. Jones
10. _Influenza siderius_ begins as a general malaise. That is always the first symptom. Perhaps you wish to doze on the sofa, but your husband suggests a little fresh air instead. You do feel better after the walk, but by the next morning the listlessness has returned tenfold. Your husband complains when you order takeout […]
May 3, 2015 · 31 min
Drabblecast 357 – Trifecta: Embarrassing Personal Problems
It looks like a quantity of strawberry jam squeezed into a cheap polythene shower cap. Even down to the darkened pips and the intimation someone’s attempted to pick it up and squished it in the middle. Clint adjusts the telescopic sight and tilts his head, upping the magnification, but knocking the thermal readout to the […]
Apr 17, 2015 · 23 min
Drabblecast 356 – An Exodus of Wings
Before Heidi came along, Michael did everything he could to keep the damn faeries out of his apartment. Every night he washed and dried his dishes, never left one dripping in the drying rack. Always fished the food particles from the drain, took the trash out, sealed his cereal in glass jars. […]
Apr 7, 2015 · 35 min
Drabblecast 355 – Kiriki Grocery
The last day of orientation at New Plymouth University, Work Placement called students up in pairs. Rhonda Morillo took the chair next to a big-boned blond girl–Deirdre, pretty sure–as their peer advisor announced their “exciting cultural opportunity”: stocking shelves at Kiriki Grocery. Kiriki Grocery by Tory Hoke The last day […]
Mar 25, 2015 · 16 min
Drabblecast 354 – DoubleHeader XVIII: Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Alone — but not lonely. Three days, we’ve been on this planet. Over a year, Earth-time. But we don’t talk about Earth-time anymore. It weakens morale, says Sir Overgeneral Halfish. My morale went out the window when I found out that I was sentenced to be transported off planet. Alienated […]
Mar 21, 2015 · 39 min
Drabblecast 353 – Primrose or Return to Il’maril
“I will not leave this cavern,” the voice said as soon as I stepped into the cave mouth. A baritone decaying into vibrato, an old man’s voice, full of dignity and pride. I tried to pinpoint its source, but the air was thick with fog. The haze seemed to originate from inside the chamber, where […]
Mar 18, 2015 · 18 min
Drabblecast 352 – Snow Day
The shovel bit through the foamy snow on the top stair of my front porch, then stopped with a clang. I scraped away the snow to see what was beneath. Ice. Serve me right for not shoveling after the snow had fallen last night. It had thawed, then the temperature had dropped into the deep […]

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast 371 – Old Dead Futures

Drabblecast 370 – The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth

Drabblecast 369 – In The Walls

Drabblecast 368 – Restless in R’lyeh

Drabblecast 367 – The Whisperer in Darkness pt. 2

Drabblecast 366 – The Whisperer in Darkness pt. 1

Drabblecast 365 – This Secular Technology

Drabblecast 364 – All of Our Past Places

Drabblecast 363 – The Totals

Drabblecast 362 – Starter House

Drabblecast 361 – Time to Say Goodnight

Drabblecast 360 – Trifecta: Locked Boxes

Drabblecast 359 – Trifecta: Unnatural Growth

Drabblecast 358 – DoubleHeader: Rachael K. Jones

Drabblecast 357 – Trifecta: Embarrassing Personal Problems

Drabblecast 356 – An Exodus of Wings

Drabblecast 355 – Kiriki Grocery

Drabblecast 354 – DoubleHeader XVIII: Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

Drabblecast 353 – Primrose or Return to Il’maril

Drabblecast 352 – Snow Day