Episodes
The Drabblecast takes you on an expedition you're gonna have to see with your own eyes to believe! We bring you The Monster-God of Marmurth by Edmond Hamilton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 05/05/23
The Drabblecast presents an original story by Michael Bettendorf about sports, parental expectations and growing up the hard way in a literal way. Read to you by Renee Chambliss. Art by DS Oswald Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 04/29/23
Dating is weird this week on the Drabblecast. We bring you a Drabblecast original, “Yummy Tummy,” by Chelsea Pumpkins, read by Word Whore. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 04/29/23
The Drabblecast returns with a sinister tale of generational ick. We present “The Bad Ones Are Always the Best,” by Michelle Ann King. The Bad Ones Are Always the Best by Michelle Ann King Marty’s grandson takes the cup of tea he’s offered — without saying thank you, mind — and stares at it dubiously, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 03/22/23
On this week’s Drabblecast, Dendrology meets Criminal Psychology. A story by Harley Carnell. Art by Bo Kaier. Woods For the Trees by Harley Carnell On the second day of our search for John Shaw, John Shaw joins our search party. Frustrated after years of incompetence and inaction from the authorities, and after Shaw recently committed […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 02/25/23
Ever feel Déjà vu on the road supposedly less traveled? Truth and lies on this week’s Drabblecast, we bring you an original story from Bob McHugh called “Is This a Plate?” Enjoy! Produced by Adam Pracht Read by Dominick Rabrun   Beyond this point, two paths lie One you live, one you die Ask one […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 02/11/23
This week’s show has it all: vampires, evolutionary biology, and quivering jacked up Taylor Swifts. We bring you three flash fiction pieces about the complications of being in love: Taylor Swift by Hugh Behm-Steinberg, The Evolution of a Breakup by Etgar Keret, and May I Come In by Adrienne Ryan. Narrations provided by Avery Alexander, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 01/09/23
This week we the Drabblecast brings you some interesting original historic found footage uncovered by author Jonathan Louis Duckworth called, “The Follower’s Revel.” Enjoy! Art by Bo Kaier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 12/23/22
Episode Sponsor– Mothmen 1966 The secret’s out on this week’s Drabblecast, and nothing will ever be the same. We bring you an original Drabblecast story called “A Hymn Upon the Lips of the Dead,” by Mav Lux. Oh and Norm sings us a song about singing that he should have just told you. Enjoy! Cover […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 11/11/22
An uncanny episode of original fiction this week on the Drabblecast– we bring you, “The Tenant” by Sarah E. Stevens. Cover created by Bo Kaier in concert with the midjourney text-to-image AI (and unidentifiable, scraped contributors). We hope to experience your enjoyment.    The Tenant by Sarah E. Stevens  Vanessa […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 11/03/22
Finally, a Drabblecast episode for weird foodies. We bring you a Drabblecast original called, “How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map” by P.A, Cornell. Enjoy… Episode Sponsor– Mothmen 1966 Cover created by Bo Kaier in concert with the midjourney text-to-image AI (and unidentifiable, scraped contributors). How […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 09/30/22
Episode Sponsor: Mothman 1966 In this week’s Drabblecast story, the only scenes that aren’t sex scenes are crime scenes. We bring you an original Drabblecast story by Tim Pratt about a dark future of vigilante justice sex toys, called “The Distributed Denial of Sexytime.” Also, Norm and guest Executice Producer Bart Epstein treat us to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 08/24/22
Norm is cryptic this week in terms of offering information on the featured story, “7099 Brecksville Road, Independence Ohio,” by JR Hamentaschen. He will say that that’s the story, and that’s the author. And to listen with headphones on. And also, check out our episode sponsor this week, pixel-pulp video game Mothmen 1966! Available on […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 08/03/22
The Drabblecast is molting! Norm shares some exciting news in the intro this week, Drabblecast has launched a Patreon, and a new quarterly magazine, “The Tentaculum.” Also, welcome new Managing Editor Cameron Howard! Finally, we close out HP Lovecraft “Month” with an original story by Aliya Whitely called, “Plans for Expansion.” Stones contain stories. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 07/11/22
This week’s show brings you an original commissioned HP Lovecraft mythos story by Nick Mamatas called “When the Sun Hits.” Afterwards, Nick talks about the story in an Author’s Note and Norm gives everyone an existential crises in a Drabble News presentation on The Boltzmann Brain. When the brain is liberated from the body, only […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 04/13/22
Shark week on Drabblecast has never been so unnerving! Enjoy an original Drabblecast story this week from Evie Mae Barber about what lurks even deeper in the depths… The great white looked like he was having a good time, swimming upside down, bone-white belly above water, teeth gnashing playfully. Like a puppy dreams of finally […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 02/08/22
Norm closes out the year and existence as we know it, due to the phenomena known as “The Continuation,” with the Drabblecast annual holiday Tim Pratt story, an original commission called “How Lovely Are Your Branches.” Enjoy! Somebody was murdering people, but the killer’s name wasn’t showing up on my naughty list. That got me […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 01/01/22
The Drabblecast kicks off H.P. Lovecraft Month with the grandfather of Weird Fiction’s cautionary dark fantasy, “The Doom That Came to Sarnath.” There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream and out of which no stream flows. Ten thousand years ago there stood by its shore […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 11/08/21
The Drabblecast brings you three original stories this week (Modern Fairytales, if you will) from authors Alice Gauntley, Matthew Sanborn Smith, and Kevin D. Anderson. Enjoy! Our birthday was the first of March, and for two weeks beforehand it was all Caleb could talk about—cake, presents, and, most importantly, whom to invite. He would chatter […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 10/20/21
We’re getting back to nature this week on the Drabblecast, with Michael Piel’s original story, “Watch Anya Blume.” Enjoy! Anya Blume showered, slept, and showered again. Yes, she thought, she was beginning to feel human. Exhausted, sure, but human. She popped five Advil and closed the medicine cabinet. There, at the bottom of the mirror […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 10/09/21
Warning: some explicit language. Join us this week for a little Camp Dystopia! The Drabblecast brings you a story about growing up the hard way by Sofia Samatar, called “How to Get Back to the Forest.” Enjoy! Episode Sponsor- “You Know It’s True” by J.R. Hamantaschen “You have to puke it up,” said Cee. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 09/29/21
Episode Sponsor: You Know It’s True by J.R. Hamantaschen This week on the Drabblecast, we bring you a classic story by Flannery O’Conner about simpler times and a summer family vacation gone awry. Enjoy! Warning: This story is being presented in it’s original form and contains an instance of outdated cultural language. “Now look here, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 08/25/21
Dinosaurs gone awry on this week’s Drabblecast! We bring you an original story by John Wiswell called The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One), enjoy! Episode Sponsor: J.R. Hamentaschen’s horror anthology, “You Know It’s True” Free on Kindle Unlimited! Dinosaurs don’t want to kill you; they just don’t care that you’re there. More people have […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 08/03/21
This week’s episode is brought to you by J.R. Hamentaschen’s fourth horror fiction anthology “You Know It’s True.” Grab a copy for kindle or otherwise, here! For our story this week, take a trip with us to the Fourteenth Floor, where you are every guest. We bring you “Stay,” by Davian Aw. You were every […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 07/06/21
The Drabblecast is on the scene this week, with an original story by Gail Ann Gibbs, read by Starla Hutchton, that reminds us that it’s ok to be a little weird. Or maybe even, SUPER weird… I like the way Richard smells. The next time a psychiatrist asks me what makes me happy, I’ll say […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 06/25/21