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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast 375 – Ghost in the Coffee Machine

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Fiction, Comedy Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8989 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to ghosts, my grandmother has one solution: brew a pot of coffee. Like today, in Sadie Lancaster’s kitchen. Sadie clutches her hands beneath her chin and stares at our percolator, her eyes huge. The thing gurgles and hisses as if it resents being pressed into service. My own reflection in its side […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast episode 375.

0:17.0

The Drabblecast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories

0:21.6

by strange authors to strange listeners.

0:24.4

Such as yourself.

0:25.7

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

0:28.2

This week we bring you the Ghost in the Coffee Machine

0:31.2

by Charity Thomas Ab.

0:33.0

Charity's slung corn on the cob for green giant

0:35.5

and jumped out of airplanes, but not at the same time.

0:38.8

She spent 12 years as a Girl Scout and six in the Army

0:42.2

that she wore a green uniform for both may not be a

0:44.9

coincidence. These days she writes fiction long and short and works as a technical

0:49.6

writer for a software company in St Paul. Paul. Her novel The Geek Girls Guide to Cheerleading written with

0:54.9

co-author Darcy Vance was a Y-A-L-S-A 2012 popular paperback pick in the Get Your Geek on category. Her short speculative fictions appeared in UFO Publishing's Unidentified Funny Objects and Coffee

1:08.0

Anthologies, Kasca Press, Sucker Literary magazine, and Cast of Wonders.

1:12.4

The story originally appeared in Coffee. Sucker, literary magazine, and cast of wonders.

1:13.2

The story originally appeared in Coffey, 14 caffeinated tales of the Fantastic.

1:18.3

The story is produced this week by Adam Pratt and read to you by Veronica Jaguer.

1:23.0

So without further ado, we bring you

1:25.9

The Ghost in the Coffee Machine

1:28.0

by Charity Thomas Ab. A few miles out of Bridgedale. I'll see the kids.

1:34.0

Ghost In the Coffee Machine

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