The Drabblecast
By Norm Sherman
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Podcast Description
The Drabblecast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that offers “strange stories for strange listeners.” Stories feature on the Drabblecast are generally narrated by charismatic host, humorist, and musician Norm Sherman. A full production, the Drabblecast features multiple voice actors, music, and foley effects. The podcast has a finely tuned 'voice' that crosses all genres, including horror, science fiction, fantasy and 'other.' Special features include 100-word stories called, “drabbles,” 100 character stories coined “twabbles,” as well as Norm's own Bbardles, songs based on story themes. Original cover art accompanies every episode.
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Drabblecast 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 was a squid, others an octopus, | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drabblecast 243 – The Other Lila | I step out of a porter booth in the overheated Los Angeles station and reach up to peel off my winter coat. That's when I realize something's wrong with my hand -- it feels numb and prickly, and the fingers aren't quite responding the way they're suppo... | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drabblecast 242 – Transfer of Ownership | My new occupant is larger than Carson was. I was made for her, within a certain tolerance for the inevitable changes in human specifications that come with age, changes in health, and abundance or scarcity... | 5/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDrabblecast 241 – The Dead | Three boy zombies in matching red jackets bussed our table, bringing water, lighting candles, brushing away the crumbs between courses. Their eyes were dark, attentive, lifeless... | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drabblecast 240 – Trifecta XXI | We bought our first yarn baby at a garage sale. The ends of its arms were frayed and its eye buttons dangled loose on bare threads. - This theme of this episode of the Drabblecast is family unties: Nontraditional homes and family situations. | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDrabblecast 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... - | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drabblecast 238 – From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 | Translating... Appendix 820 of The Forbidden Greeny Jungle Field Guide. This series of audio files was created by TreeFrog7. It has been automatically translated into text - In this episode of the Drabblecast, | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drabblecast 237 – Test Drive | It was my turn to wear the mask, but my egg-sister Linney wouldn't give it up. She'd been wearing the mask all morning, set on Smile, and it was a test day, too. Everyone thought she was so pleased and relaxed and Earthy... - | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drabblecast 236 – When You Visit the Magoebaskloof Hotel Be Certain Not to Miss the Samango Monkeys | In the place where I was born, stones had been used to mark boundaries for four hundred years. We harrowed stones up in fields, turned them up in roadcuts. We built the foundations of houses from stones, dug around and between them. We made stone walls, | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drabblecast 235 – Unreliable Witness | 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 when they come to visit, or the aliens, | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Awesome weirdness
Not just weird, but weird with amazingly good production values. Norm Sherman is the best story narrator on the web. If your psyche is already twisted and broken this podcast is for you. If it isn't yet, that can easily be remedied by hitting the Subscribe button, strapping yourself into a chair, clockwork orange style, and catching up on this long running podcast.
Makes the week a little bit better
Whenever I get a little too caught up in day-to-day life, the Drabblecast is there smack me upside the head and say "Hey! Lighten up!" Norm Sherman is one of the new great storytellers. He brings such life and depth to the short story genre. Spread the word!
Keepin it Weird
This is the best treat on the web. While mainstream literature journals lock out edgy, left of center stories, the Drabblecast hands over the set of keys on its belt and gives them full access. Norm's humor and production makes this a unique tour of literature's buttered on the crust side.
