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Another great story. I just took my second listen tinight after the kids went to bed. I know I need to tell my kids ( 1 and 3) to be nice., play good and make friends. But there are some days, you just want to tell them to do whatever needs to be done. A great coming of age story! And as always impe...

Drabblecast 411 – Wholesale Solution [/u][/b] by Fred Greenhalgh and Jack Bowman https://www.drabblecast.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/drabblecast_kit_ainslie_wholesale_1.jpg Episode art by Kit Ainslie Twabble: Spring is awful, filled with scuttling things and pollen. The trees revenge for the fir...

Drabblecast 410 – Go Between By China Miéville Something was in the bread. Morley was cutting, and on the fourth strike of the knife, the metal broke. Behind him, his friends talked over their food. Morley pried the dough apart and touched something smooth. He had marked it with a scratch. Morley c...

Drabblecast 409: The Dandelion Man [/u][/b] By Jack Nicholls Teo and Paulus stood at the shore of the pampas, where the grass grew twice as tall as a man. They were naked, and the pampero raised goosebumps on their skin. The stalks bent against the wind’s force, green and gold ripples drawing the e...

Episode art by Bo Kaier
Read by Chris Phipps and and Mike Boris

I remember this one from years ago. Mur was sky rocketting in the pod sphere, and it seemed every story podcast I went to, she was there. These two stories really point out why for me. For such short pieces they have this ability to bring you into the weirdness, placing a bleek future where feral hu...

I gotta say this is some great cover art!

Drabblecast 407 – The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change by Kij Johnson. North Park is a backwater tucked into a loop of the Kaw River: pale dirt and baked grass, aging playground equipment, silver-leafed cottonwoods, underbrush, mosquitoes and gnats that b...

Drabbleclassics 30- Doubleheader featuring Mur Lafferty (150) [/u][/b] The Blueberry Pie by Mur Lafferty The Last of the Pie Hunters by Mur Lafferty She’d been hunting full-grown pies for four years now. The little hand-held fruit pies were for kids– the preservatives made them slow and stupid– but...

Just Lookin’ for Chocolate.

Drabblecast 406 – Beauty Tips for the Apocalypse by Karen Heuler In times such as these, with the world shaken to its core, it is all too easy to give up on routine cosmetic care. Yet a fresh look in a war zone can do so much to uplift those suffering and dying right in front of your eyes. Consider...

I agree with El barto on many points. For me I didn't get enough sense of the little girl who could not let her dog go from Laura. Her recall to daisy didn't really get that across. I was really interested in how the author got the story fully formed from a dream. As some who's dreams are rarely thi...

Drabblecast 405 – Wet Fur by Jeremiah Tolbert You can tell the dog owners when they board the plane. They see the black cloud hovering in the first row and their eyes widen in shock, then narrow in fear. When they see so many occupied seats, they smile. It’s a relieved smile that seems to say: “Not...

Drabblecast 404 – Witches for Mars By Eden Royce No one expected the government to allow it. To acknowledge it even, but Maira was looking at the advertisement above a webpage she was using to compare prices of agate and selenite healing crystals. https://www.drabblecast.org/wp-content/uploads/2019...

This is one of the reasons that made me such a fan of the Drabblecast. Great story, amazing production, and I get exposure to an author I (ashamedly) did not know. I am always amazed when an author can pull you into a story by leveraging something from actual history, by re framing the context. The ...

This story really hit me. Not only was it well done, but I had a ball room incident when I was young. I dont remember the place, I think it was a Chuck'e Cheese knockoff. I entered the ball pit that was really deep, and got sucked in. I lost all sense of orientation. I remember trying to dig for the...

Good story, I really enjoyed the development to the conclusion. And i think it is great that the author put in a strong transgendered character, I cannot think of the last story to do so. Salutations to the author!