Drabblecast 36 – Pumpkinseeds
Their orange gazes came from devilishly carved eyes and their vigilant stares sent a chill up Kincade’s neck. He had never liked the gutted vegetables that people found hauntingly ornamental this time...
View ArticleDrabblecast 99 – Sarah’s Window
The shadow lingered at Sarah’s window, balanced on air, certain to fly away the next step I took. Another moment and it would be gone. Another moments and I would call the police, report my daughter...
View ArticleDrabblecast B-Sides 6 – The Horror at Martin’s Beach
Its extraordinary mouth, its thick and scaly hide, and its single, deep-set eye were wonders scarcely less remarkable than its colossal dimensions; and when the naturalists pronounced it an infant...
View ArticleDrabblecast 149 – So You’re Going to Die
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 person can get...
View ArticleDrabblecast 181 – Funeral Song for a Ventriloquist
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...
View ArticleDrabblecast 188 – The Store of the Worlds
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...
View ArticleDrabblecast 239 – Killing the Morrow
You know, I’ve heard my share of disembodied voices. I’m accustomed to their fickle, sometimes bizarre demands. But tonight’s voice is different, clear as gin and utterly compelling. I must listen…...
View ArticleDrabblecast 244 – Doubleheader XI
It had rolled and tumbled, whatever it was, gelatinous and tentacled, from lake to canal to stream. People watched from the shore, following it with opera glasses and sea telescopes. Some thought it...
View ArticleDrabbleclassics 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, I liberate your...
View ArticleDrabbleclassics 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 person can get...
View ArticleDrabblecast 10 – A Little Black Death
He kept them in jars in his garage. Row after row of mayonnaise jars, each one containing a small, shiny blob of instant death…. In its tenth episode, the Drabblecast presents Lance Arthur’s story ‘A...
View ArticleDrabblecast 13 – RORRIM
This is a story about how one thing leads to another, if you know what I mean. It’s about what the Chinese mean when they say: “I curse you with an interesting time”…. In this episode of the...
View ArticleDrabblecast 34 – The Suit
I watched him traverse the crowded room. He seemed physically different. It was not his attire, for that was unchanged. He was in the same ice-cream white suit…. The post Drabblecast 34 – The Suit...
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