The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast
By Norm Sherman
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Description
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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CleanDrabblecast 383 – SUN MOON CAT MAN | "What have we got, Sergeant Kelley?" I ask, tired and bored from a long day of doing very little. I was just about to go home to my empty flat. These days it's not so different from the police station. - On my speaker-phone Kelley's voice says, | 9/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 382 – Down the Well | "I enjoy watching children," she said. "It comforts me to remember that I too was a child once, and one day they too will be old." - Her shiny olive skin was firm, but even the best youth-treatments couldn't hide the purple veins that snaked around he... | 8/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 381 – Unathi Battles the Black Hairballs | Unathi was singing karaoke when the creature attacked Tokyo. Or rather, she was about to sing karaoke. Was, in fact, about to be the very first person in Shibuya's Big Echo to break in the newly uploaded Britney hip-hop remix of the Spice Girls' 'Tell ... | 5/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 380 – The Four Generations of Chang E | In the final days of Earth as we knew it, Chang E won the moon lottery. - For Earthlings who were neither rich nor well-connected, the lottery was the only way to get on the Lunar Habitation Programme. (This was the Earthlings' name for it. | 4/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 379 – Water Spots | "They found your brother…" - Her mother leaves the sentence unfinished, and she wants to tell her not to go on. He can be anywhere, in the water, in the fire, and in the end there's little difference between burnt bones and waterlogged bones. - | 4/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 378 – Giraffe Cyborg Cleans House! | A plate, a plate, another plate burst upon the kitchen tile. This one broke into three large pieces and assorted ceramic crumbs. Giraffe closed her long-lashed eyes and prayed to her many makers. Why in the world would the people make one hard thing th... | 3/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 377 – Here There Be Monsters? | The canary yellow shirt read "Camp Fit," but it didn't quite fit the bulbous, pre-adolescent boy cringing in the cabin's corner. Rows of bunks lined both sides of the room. - Standing over the boy, Worgly raised his shaggy brown arms and roared with h... | 2/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 376 – A Last Kiss for Lazarus Winters (A Saint Darwin’s Spiritual) | I was born again on New Year's Eve, full of broken promises, and slick and sticky with two kinds of blood. One of them was a ghost's. That didn't surprise me, though. I've seen my share of ghost blood. - I'd spent most of my life working with spirits ... | 1/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 375 – Ghost in the Coffee Machine | When it comes to ghosts, my grandmother has one solution: brew a pot of coffee. Like today, in Sadie Lancaster’s kitchen. - Sadie clutches her hands beneath her chin and stares at our percolator, her eyes huge. The thing gurgles and hisses as if it | 1/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 374 – Jump I’ll Catch You | Anton drew his legs up underneath him. The car seat was huge and puffy, and the leather made a breathy creak when he moved. It sounded like it was sighing. - 'How much longer?' he said. - For a while, nobody answered. | 12/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 373 – Trifecta: Things We Made | Sato lay on the cement floor of the workshop in a pool of his own blood and tried desperately to get Kuro-4's legs working again. The robot, in turn, tried to deal with the gaping wounds in Sato's smashed leg and pelvis. - - - - | 11/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 372 – Delicate Parts | Earnest was in kindergarten when Jackie the Janitor got fired for "choking the chicken" in the girls' bathroom. That phrase, along with his best friend Bradley Watson’s accompanying hand gestures, stuck in Earnest's head so hard that whenever he looked. | 11/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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. - | 11/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 370 – The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth | Tomiko knelt at the table, across from her father, carefully holding her back rigid and straight as they ate their breakfast. She hoped the formal posture would make him take her arguments seriously, but he barely looked at her as he ate mix of rice an... | 9/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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, | 9/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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, | 8/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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 ... | 8/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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 Vermo... | 8/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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. | 7/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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. | 7/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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. | 7/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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. | 6/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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? | 6/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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 alw... | 5/31/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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." - | 5/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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, | 5/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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 h... | 5/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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, | 4/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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... | 4/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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 sentenc... | 3/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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. | 3/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 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, | 3/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 351 – DoubleHeader XVII: Camille Griep | The fiery orange sun hung high over the Bangkok skyline to the south. Professor Tina Montri rearranged her skirt and adjusted the alligator skin briefcase on her lap which held the presentation and research notes from her talk at the university. | 3/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 350 – Trifecta XXX: Something Fishy | Izam's fingers moved on their own. They found his sunken chest. And counted his ribs. - His father would have slapped his hand away. A stupid habit of a stupid boy. A stupid starving boy who counted his ribs when he was hungry even though it only made... | 2/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 349 – The Island of White Houses | Today I am going to the island. - I climb the slick wood stairs down to Whitmuth beach. The wind blows fierce through the town like usual and swirls back out to sea, smoky with our coal fires and smacking with hot oil from the fry shops up and down th... | 2/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 348 – DoubleHeader XVI: LiAnn Yim | The fish were restless. They spun the water mossy dark until the pond was the color of crushed bottles. - Pey held onto her sister’s hand. They peered down at the water. - This morning, their mother opened her eyes and said she was too cold to get ou... | 1/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 347 – Why I Hate Zombie Unicorns | The good news is, zombie unicorns almost never bite. The bad news is, even a tiny scratch from a zombie unicorn horn will turn you into a zombie. Mom discovered that by accident. - - - - - - Why I Hate Zombie Unicorns | 1/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 346 – Remission | Susan found her boss's feelings drawer by accident. She drank too much and took a wrong turn in Sundrun's apartment at the office holiday party, while looking for the bathroom. It had been all the rage five years ago, | 12/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 345 – Cat With Blue Fur Trifecta | A collection of stories from the Cat With Blue Fur Writing Contest. - - - - - - - - - - - Meow Meow Bang Bang by Oliver Buckram She was the kind of dame you never forget. Lips as moist and pink as smoked salmon. | 12/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 344 – Doubleheader XV | The chair first appeared on a Thursday afternoon on the sidewalk in front of the Dollar Bank and Trust on Lancaster Street in Pulaski, Kansas. Nobody saw how it got there. At least, no reliable eyewitnesses have ever come forward, | 12/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 343 – Captain Confederation | Captain Confederation was annoyed when he got off the elevator and it showed. It would have been so simple and logical for him to land on the roof of the Superhero Administration Centre, or in the ample grounds surrounding it, | 11/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 342 – I’m Bill Kurtis | Nate had expected the first serial killer. In fact the first thing he'd said to Kelly once their Ford rolled to a stop on the shoulder was, "This is serial killer country. We're finished." She made scaredy-cat eyes and drew a finger across her throat. | 11/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 341- The Litany of Earth | After a year in San Francisco, my legs grew strong again. A hill and a half lay between the bookstore where I found work and the apartment I shared with the Kotos. Every morning and evening I walked, breathing mist and rain into my desert-scarred lungs, | 11/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 340 – On a Clear Day You Can See All the Way to Conspiracy | You're listening to the Mike Colavito Show on Cleveland's home for straight talk, WCUY 1200. The opinions expressed on this program do not reflect those of WCUY, its management, or its sponsors. - Fair warning; I'm in a mood today, folks. - | 10/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 339 – Trifecta XXVIII: Offbeat Afterlife | The ghost in my attic is Margaret, but she lets me call her Margie. She was seventy-six years old when she died, and now that she's a ghost she sits in her rocking chair day and night, holding a tiny baby in her arms. | 9/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 338 – The Crevasse | What he loved was the silence, the pristine clarity of the ice shelf: the purposeful breathing of the dogs straining against their traces, the hiss of the runners, the opalescent arc of the sky. Garner peered through shifting veils of snow at the endle... | 9/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 337 – The Only Game in Town | Walking back up the road toward home, I saw Rich Hartzell locking up his cabin. His car was stuffed to the roof with cardboard boxes and black trash bags; only the driver's seat was empty. - - - - - - The Only Game in Town | 9/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 336 – The Mouth of God | There's a dream you have. - It's not a proper dream. It's impatient, fired with urgency. It arrives without warning, veering suddenly out of the night. - You're kneeling on the bridge. It's late afternoon. Clouds mass low in the sky, | 8/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 335 – To Whatever | To whatever lives in the walls— - Please stop taking my half & half. Let's get this out of the way: I know you're there. Don't think I'm unaware of the scrabbling sounds, the walls creaking from your bulk, | 8/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDrabblecast 334 – The Colour Out of Space | West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. | 8/10/2014 | 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!
Great stories, well read, excellently produced
I love the variety of creative/quirky/sometimes creepy stories that are featured on this podcast, and the professional narration and film-quality audio production (complete with background music and strategically placed sound effects) makes every episode sound like a full-fledged I-can't-believe-this-is-free audiobook. I highly recommend this...and believe me, I'm picky when it comes to podcasts.
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