Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast episode 357. The Drabble

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.

Before we get to our Trifecta Special this week, a quick reminder that we're in our last week of voting for the 2014 Drabble

Cast People's Choice Awards.

If you haven't voted yet out of the finalists for Best Feature Story, Best

Hundred Word Trabble, Best Hundred Character twabble, and best episode cover art,

head over to our forums at forums dot drabblecast.org, take a quick second to register

if you aren't a member yet, and get your people's choice choosing on.

There are five finalists in the best feature story category this year, battling to take home

the sacred Drapylcast Chalice of Glory.

Desmond Warzel with his story, The Blue Celebrity

in Episodes 313 and 14.

Jay Lake, may he rest in peace,

with the last story he ever sold on this earth,

the goat cutter in episode 321.

New her name, Ursula Vernon,

with her fantastic story, Jackalope Wives,

in episode 325.

Old Hat at the Short Story Game,

Howard Waldrop, with Knight of the Couters in episode 331,

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