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Wow, great news. Congratulations. I've read about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and the other books in this new genre, but I haven't been tempted to buy one. This one I want to read, though, and not just because it was written by someone at Drabblecast. Good luck with it. I hope it leads to a long...

I've been a fan of Rogers for years. I bought a book of his short stories a long time ago, called "Flaming Arrow," if I remember right. No surprise that I enjoyed both of these stories with a similar theme. The Wrong Cart was the better of the two for me, because I like the absurd. I admit if I had ...

And in regards to the drabble, I must say, the author seems to have an obsession with mustaches doesn't he. ;) I now envision him as one of those "world facial hair championships" entrants, with a luxurious 'stache that curls up past his temples. Modern literature woefully underutilizes the mustach...

Love the image of the clown bodies and eggs on the shore, but for some reason I didn't enjoy the story as much as I expected to. Don't know why really. I was reading the story off a web site as I listened to Norm narrate it, although I don't think that has anything to do with it.

I liked this one a lot, partly because of some of the drabbles and partly because it was just different. I wish it was something I had thought of, actually. I'd say there were only a couple duds, like the foot tickling one, while the talking penis, the zombie kid and the fornicating city stood out a...

Never mind.

Thanks, guys. Ray, I would have tried to get your email and ask you about it, assuming I got the okay from Norm first. Now I guess I don't have to. It's pretty much done. I'm definitely no artist, but it was fun trying to time the dialogue with the editing. Possibly it was a complete waste of time. ...

Neither community perished. Once the asteroid was gone, so was the danger. Both sides went on to live long lives, one group above ground, the other in their safe bunker where nothing could touch them. I guess the ending is still a little ambiguous, though. You don't really know if the above ground p...

I read the comments here before I listened to the story, so the surprise ending was spoiled, but I had to smile at the Bam. I don't think guns cause people to be violent, but it sure is easier to be violent when you have one handy. That's why those old West poker players didn't solve their disputes ...

Interesting. Bad mutant badger and bad human. Makes you wonder which one is the real giant radioactive monster. I'd go with Snuffles.

Don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this before, but I like that little "drabble" that comes right before the drabble.

It wasn't until this second week that I got into the story, but I think I'm in it now for the duration. Last week, I had to stop the audio after ten minutes, then listened to the rest of it the next day. Maybe it was something to do with the game show scene that didn't do it for me, or some of the s...

Hm, good timing. I'm just getting into superhero fiction, reading an anthology called "Superheroes" right now. There's two more, "Who Can Save Us Now?" and "The Darker Mask," I plan on reading, too.

I'll never get asked the question about where I get my ideas, but it still annoys me that anyone would ask a question like that. Basically, it's a person with no imagination asking a person with a vivid imagination why they have a vivid imagination. They just do. And you just don't, and never will, ...

I never even noticed any theme song (just a little background suspense music) or that the story was set in the 80s. I would have figured the late 90s, since the kid is, I think, 25 at the end of the story.

thebrog wrote:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinsufficient value!

Plagiarist. I already said that.

This one didn't really blow me away. It was fun, but there were parts I thought could have been done better. I didn't really buy that he was a zombie just because of the cockroaches. Even when the cockroach first appeared, I assumed Morrisey was some kind of cockroach creature or something, disguise...

Innnnnsufficient value. That's what I'd say if the story stunk, but it didn't. It was one of the best I've heard on Drabblecast, and I think a lot of that has to do with the whole sitcom theme, funny voices, laugh track and the guy in the audience who said "he said it again." This would fit right in...

AliceNread wrote:In some ways I feel that all living things inflict their will, needs and desires onto other living things.

And it usually costs you about $50.

I like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy vibe, but that style of sci-fi is so associated with Douglas Adams that I think writing in that sub genre always makes a story come off as a pale imitator. I still enjoyed it, though.