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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast 372 – Delicate Parts

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Fiction, Science Fiction, Comedy Fiction

4.8989 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Earnest was in kindergarten when Jackie the Janitor got fired for “choking the chicken” in the girls’ bathroom. That phrase, along with his best friend Bradley Watson’s accompanying hand gestures, stuck in Earnest’s head so hard that whenever he looked at the thing between his legs, all he could see was a bald, pointed bird […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast episode 372. The Drabble Cast is a weekly

0:18.5

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

0:26.3

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

0:29.2

This week we bring you delicate parts by A. H. W. L. A. W. L. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. She doesn't mind if they read her code.

0:43.0

Her works previously paired in Jersey Devil Press magazine,

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Defenestration, Travel Cast,

0:48.0

and a few other places that don't have D's in their name.

0:52.0

So without further ado, we bring you delicate parts by A. Hui Lynn.

1:00.4

Ernest was in kindergarten when Jackie the janitor got fired for choking the

1:06.3

chicken in the girls bathroom. That phrase along with his best friend Bradley

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Watson's accompanying hand gestures,

1:14.1

struck in earnest's head so hard that whenever he looked at the thing between his legs,

1:18.9

all he could see was a bald pointed birdhead. like the ones attached to the roast ducks hanging in the Chinese

1:26.0

windows restaurants.

1:28.2

He didn't learn what euphemism meant until the third grade, and by then it was too late.

1:34.0

His chicken had grown feathers and a beak.

1:37.1

When it started to open and close its mouth, he asked his mother's if he could take showers

1:41.6

instead of baths. He didn't want it to drown.

1:44.8

Bradley told him that penises weren't really chickens, but every time Ernest tried to

1:50.7

wish his chicken away, it would stare at him with its bright, beady black eyes, and he would lose his concentration.

1:58.0

After a while, he stopped trying and was just glad he hadn't heard the phrase,

2:02.0

trouser snake first. and was just glad he hadn't heard the phrase,

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