Nominations: Best Drabble : 2013 People's Choice

[Algernon Sydney is Dead]

Best Drabble

Please nominate your favorite drabbles from the last Drabblecast year. Choose from Episodes 272 through 311.

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Instructions:

1. Nominate your 5 favorite drabbles in a reply, below.
2. Please include the episode number for each of your nominations.
3. Nominations close March 1st.

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Drabble List:
Links are provided to both the audio/main page for each drabble's episode and for the text of the drabble, if available. (Keep in mind that Norm's audio really brings out the awesome in a drabble.)

Note that there was no drabble for episodes: 273, 275, 277, 279, 280, 281, 285, 289, 291, 300, 304, 306, 310, and 311.


272 (audio | no text link yet) Eyes by Steven Saus
She remembers the glitter of his eyes when they first made love...


274 (audio | Drabble text) Take Me To Your Leader by Eric Marsh
A robot has its priorities right.


276 (audio | Drabble text) A Few Errands by Nathan Lee
A newly bipedal "Pick up artist" at the grocery store.


278 (audio | Drabble text) Last Man Standing by David Dickinson
The sole survivor, of the Apocalypse, is not who you'd expect.


282 (audio | Drabble text) And If You Gaze Into the Abyss by Derek Manuel
The narrator really gets around... Or does he?


283 (audio | Drabble text) Man a la Moustache by Basil Godevenos
Whenever he missed her, two waxy tendrils stroked his face, and made it better.


284 (audio | Drabble text) The First Wish by Phineas QB
Roger "outsmarts" a Genie.


286 (audio | no text link yet) Prosopagnosia by Ken Liu
Faced with a police lineup, a man with face blindness prepares to make the worst mistake of his life.


287 (audio | Drabble text) Benjy by James Rogers
They say, "Don't walk before you can crawl." Apparently little Benjy never heard that particular expression...


288 (audio | Drabble text) In the Shelter of Each Other by Rachael K. Jones
Carefully overlapped leaves wrapped in spider silk patched each hole in the roof.


290 (audio | Drabble text) Structural Decay by Nathan Lee
He tried to verb the nouns again, but pronoun wouldn’t verb.


292 (audio | Drabble text) The Oldest of the New Gods by George Sandison
The chants are unspoken, the deacons wise to our suspicions and wisdom. Instead we type his name...


293 (audio | Drabble text) Lovecraft by Chris Munroe
And as they were consumed, body and soul, the captain would sing his mad, haunted refrain...


294 (audio | Drabble text) Knock by Chris Thompson
She is the one who knocks.


295 (audio | Drabble text) Improved Stars by Chantal Beaulne
Those left behind find ways to cope with a mass existence malfunction.


296 (audio | Drabble text) The Octopus Train by Jason Jones
The conductor takes your burgeoning pseudopod in his own, and as he punches it, you scream.


297 (audio | no text link yet) The Necromancer's Apprentice by Arun Jiwa
Murder is one way to get your teacher's attention.


298 (audio | Drabble text) Crisis of Competence by Travelin' Corpse Feet
Doctor Manfred saves the day!


299 (audio | Drabble text) Dear John by Rachael K. Jones.
He's left with a body, a note, and a promise that she'll come back in a form he does not expect.


301 (audio | Drabble text ) My Robots by Christopher Munroe
It's robots all the way down, until you get to the nanobots.


302 (audio | Drabble text) Exponential Growth by Derek Manuel
Parenting done right.


303 (audio | Drabble text) When the Mighty Fall, Give Us a Call by Derek Manuel
Epic sequel to Casey at the Bat.


305 (audio | Drabble text) The Toymaker's Dilemma by Rachael K. Jones
He brings the toys -- just in case.


307 (audio | Drabble text) Stay Warm This Christmas by Larry Hinkle
Santa Claus "warms up" to changing times.


308 (audio | Drabble text) On My Birthday by Chelsea Voulgares
Oh, how sharper than a serpent's tooth...


309 (audio | Drabble text) Supply by Myles McDonough
A teenager is spineless -- literally.

[munsi]

290 - Structural Decay
296 - The Octopus Train
302 - Exponential Growth
305 - The Toymaker’s Dilemma
307 - Stay Warm this Christmas

[TheBigBadG]

If you need a blurb for mine (The Oldest of the New Gods) I'd go with 'This new god is older than our ability to imagine gods.'

[Algernon Sydney is Dead]

If you need a blurb for mine (The Oldest of the New Gods) I'd go with 'This new god is older than our ability to imagine gods.'

Oopsie, we cross posted. I'll leave my blurb up (unless you don't want me too) and then your story will get twice the promotion!

[TheBigBadG]

I'll leave the reins of the editorial beast in your capable claws! Was just passing through to refresh my memory and thought I'd help. I'll take the free promotion, of course, even though I reckon Structural Decay will verb adjective.

[gunsofchekhovia]

Episode 303 seems to have disappeared from this list. Not that it's nomination-worthy...

[Algernon Sydney is Dead]

Episode 303 seems to have disappeared from this list. Not that it's nomination-worthy...

Are you kidding? that's one of my favorites!
Sorry; I forgot to hand-edit the results from the latest version of my script. (Double-headers, 2-parters and trifectas are a right pain for automated screen scraping.)

The drabble is back in the nominations list where it belongs.

[gunsofchekhovia]

Thanks, ASiD!

I hereby nominate:

290 - Structural Decay
294 - Knock
296 - The Octopus Train
299 - Dear John
301 - My Robot

[Varda]

This was really hard. Here are my picks:

283 - And If You Gaze Into The Abyss
290 - Structural Decay
293 - Lovecraft
295 - Improved Stars
307 - Stay Warm This Christmas

[Algernon Sydney is Dead]

Thanks, Varda, for the assist with the blurbs!

[Varda]

Thanks, Varda, for the assist with the blurbs!

Anytime, my friend! It helps that I remember most of these quite well. Ah, memories!

[StalinSays]

A fine crop this year. Thanks ASID for linking to the text - immensely helpful.

287
301
302
308
309

[Algernon Sydney is Dead]

You're welcome. So many great Drabbles (and mostly homegrown), they deserve all the links they can get.

[DoctorBanzai]

282
286
294
296
305

I realize it may be selfish to nominate my own, however, I was incredibly happy with the way it turned out. Norm's read was awesome.

[tkulbaga]

I nominate #308 "On My Birthday"!!

[Algernon Sydney is Dead]

Welcome aboard, tkulbaga!

Good choice. You can also nominate 4 more drabbles if you wish.

[Tekchick]

I nominate
290 - Structural Decay
296 - The Octopus Train
302 - Exponential Growth
305 - The Toymaker’s Dilemma
308 - On My Birthday

Thanks!

[Algernon Sydney is Dead]

Thanks for the nominations, Tekchick. Welcome aboard!

[munsi]

...by the way, glad this is running right now. I have a spoken word performance Monday and the fact that I have two stories that qualify makes choosing what two pieces to read much easier. I'll see how they play live!

[strawman]

Record and post!