Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 3 12 the travel cast is a weekly

audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

While it's mid-February, and that means before we get going here with this week's story I'm obligated to tell

you about the annual contest launching this week which is quite the big deal around

here in Travelcast parts. The fifth annual Drable Cast People's Choice Awards.

This is the time of the year when we recognize the authors and artists that you thought

did particularly outstanding work in 2013 by setting up a section in our discussion forums

for you to nominate your favorite story,

drabble, and piece of episode artwork from the past year. You can nominate up to five in each of those three categories,

best feature story, best drabel, and best episode art.

And we've got them all laid out there in our forum section, entitled 2013 People's Choice Awards

to view and jog your memory.

So head on over to our discussion forums at forums dot travelcast.org.

If you've never participated there before, you might need to take a minute to register.

It really does only take a minute, probably less.

And then nominate your five favorite stories, dabbles, and episode art covers from 2013.

This round goes till the 1st of March, so get to it.

The winners receive engraved

Fancy Schmance Drabblecast plaques,

but the winner of the main category, Best Feature Story,

receives the Sacred Drabblecast Chalice of Glory,

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