Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 344. 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 December 4th, let's start things off with an appropriately forthish

drabble. The forecast calls for death by Monsieur Mustache, red and

produced by dribblecaster Tibby.

Ivy was afraid of number four.

Sometimes she dreamed about it, distant figures whispering its name and warning.

She was certain her death would involve four somehow.

She stopped leaving home, afraid she'd come across a rogue number four bus, a murderous four-year-old,

or slip on four carelessly dropped Tetra-fish.

When April rolled around, Ivy waited in agony for the fourth, certain that was the day forecast for her demise, it came and went.

Feeling foolish, yet relieved, Ivy finally walked outside. It's been months since she'd felt fresh air.

It's unfortunate how quickly golf courses pop up nowadays.

Thank you for listening to the dribble cast, found on dribblecast.org. The dribble cast is a fan-produced

companion podcast to the drabblecast which is found at drabblecast. Because here

the dribble cast we are strange listeners enjoying strange stories written by strange authors. Indeed we are, we are, and for our feature stories this week, we bring you a travel cast double-headed special, two For our featured author for Double Header Special,

two kick-ass weird stories by one kick-ass weird author.

Our featured author for Double Header Special,

Number 15, one of my absolute favorite writers, the one and only

James Patrick Kelly, and the two stories will be featuring of his are Singh, Pilgrim, and

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