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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast 359 – Trifecta: Unnatural Growth

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Fiction, Science Fiction, Comedy Fiction

4.8989 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

My twin brother had been a dry-eyed baby, and he grew into a dry-eyed boy. “Yaakov, why don’t you ever cry?” I asked him the day we buried my uncle’s family. He shrugged. “Maybe you carry all the tears for both of us, Anna.” I thought he might be right. In the past month I […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Drapylcast episode 359. The Drapylcast is a weekly

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

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I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

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Another Trifecta Special for you folks this week,

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three great stories by three different authors, all based around

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some theme.

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Our theme this week, unnatural growth.

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We bring you They Sent Runners Out by Sarah Pinsker the liver by Andrew Kosema and

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Caretaker in the Garden of Dreams by David Tallerman

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Sarah Pinsker's fiction's been published in Strange Horizons, Asimov's, Light Speed, and here on the Travelcast.

0:56.0

She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and her yard has recently been colonized by Farrell Strawberries.

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Yum.

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Andrew Kosema's Fictions Ben or will be published strawberries. And David Tallerman's short fictions appeared in numerous markets including Lightspeed,

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Clark's World, Beneath Seast the skies, and Nightmare magazine.

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He's also the author of three novels, Giant Thief, Crown Thief, and Prince Thief, as well as the graphic novel

1:25.8

Endangered Weapon B, mechanical science.

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Guest producing our stories this week is my man, David Cummings, host and showrunner of the No Sleep Podcast, a multi-award-winning

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anthology series of original short horror stories that I highly endorse you check out, that is, if you're a fan of extremely well-produced horror.

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David's from Toronto and has since made the podcasting thing his full-time career.

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He's extraordinarily talented so that comes as no surprise.

1:53.0

They sent runners-out as read by Erica Sanderson,

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an actor, director, and voice artist from England.

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