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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast 393 – Diamante and Strass

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8975 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Today the Drabblecast brings you “Diamante and Strass” by Lucy A. Snyder. Lucy A. Snyder is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, appearing in publications such as Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, and Weird Tales. She lives in Columbus, Ohio and is faculty in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. Our story today has […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast episode 393.

0:17.0

The Drabble Cast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by

0:22.0

strange authors to strange listeners such as

0:25.1

yourself. I'm your host, Norm Sherman. Man, this week's story has it all and

0:31.6

that's certainly a statement if not also a fact.

0:35.5

Thelma and Louise rock and roll post-apocalypse, with lots of other fun words thrown in that I won't give

0:40.8

out because that'd be spoiling it now wouldn't it?

0:44.0

But first, let's wet the whistle with a hundred word story.

0:48.0

Trables are stories exactly 100 words, no more, no less.

0:53.6

It's the name of the game around these parts, and the point has everything to do with doing

0:57.7

a lot with a little.

1:00.0

You can give it a whirl yourself and submit your stories in the Drapel section of our discussion forums at

1:04.6

forums dot drablicast.org. Maybe we'll pick yours to run the show next week.

1:10.1

Our drabble this week is called Motion Sensitive,

1:13.0

and it comes to us from Drapylcast fan and forum member

1:16.3

Janet Mermaid.

1:17.9

Here goes.

1:30.0

At first, she thought a motion sensitive light in the bedroom was stupid, but it came with the apartment. She shrugged it off.

1:32.0

Before long, she'd grown to like it.

1:35.0

Whenever she got up in the middle of the night to use the toilet,

1:38.0

the lights automatically came on for her.

1:41.0

No more stubbed toes. One night she awoke when the light blinked

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