Warning. This week's story has some violence and disturbing images.

I'd probably rate it as R, but what the hell do I know? Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 333 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.

Great show for you folks this week. I know I always say that but hey it's true.

But first a Drabble Cast sponsorship.

So it's been a while since we've had a writing contest here on the Drabble

cast. Back in the day we had a Haiku contest and even an annual Nigerian scam spam email writing contest.

Well, recently Drapylcast listener Bard Epstein decided to sponsor an episode of the show through his work with a Jefferson Education Accelerator,

and he decided to use the opportunity to do something pretty cool.

I'll let him tell you about it.

Every other night for the last three years or so, I have been sitting on the floor between

my kids' beds after lights out, making up an ongoing story about a barn-dwelling blue cat who has crazy adventures with his friends,

adversaries, various interlopers, and the family he lives with.

Across these hundreds of stories I have created a

little world for the cat with blue fur and his friends but this world pales in

comparison to the real world building done by the authors I so admire.

To my twin seven-year-old boys, however, the world of the cat with blue fur is nearly as real

as their own. They could tell you hundreds of

stories about the cat with blue fur's adventures. They could tell you where his

friend's spots and patches lives.

They could draw a detailed map showing you where his barn is compared to the house,

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