Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 337. 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.

Well it's the closing week of HP Lovecraft Month here're on the travelcast. My how time

flies when you keep talking in terms of incalculable eons. This week enough

waiting though. The elder gods rise in a perfect blend of my two absolute

favorite genres, southern Gothic and post-apocalyptic. But first, let's hit a

hundred- word story.

This week's hundred word dreble story is called the summoning, and we pulled it from the massive archives of fan-written

drapels we've gotten our discussion forums at forums dot drapplicast.org.

This one's from last year and comes to us from one of our favorite forum members, Phineas QP. Here goes.

I listened with mounting horror, unable to intervene as she spoke the dreadful syllables I had so feared.

Yeah, Thursday's perfect, Mom.

The fear swelled to horror, and my blood began to chill.

It'll be so good to see both of you.

My very sanity grew thin and weak, straining under the weight of those words, alien sounds they were that made no earthly sense.

Oh, nonsense.

Jim doesn't care.

You two stay as long as you like.

Give Dad my love.

I'll see you both in two days.

No, the mad fool had summoned the grating old ones. So, Which side will you be on when shit hits the fan and mommy and daddy

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