Hello and welcome to the Drapylcast episode 397.

The Drapylcast 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.

This week's stories a bit of a weird one, but hey, that's no surprise, right?

We explore the nature of words and meaning.

And yeah, I don't know, that sounds kind of like the literature and creative writing 101 way

of saying it, doesn't it? Yes, it's about commitment. It's about

failure and running and feeling lost, but it's also about that absurd thing that you

want and what you'll do to get it and what it's like once you've got it.

And also that creepy shack on the side of the road.

We're pretty big on words these days, aren't we? Maybe more than ever since the time of Adam and Stephen running freely amongst the wondrous bountiful snakes and apples of the early cradle civilization era, naming everything

this and that, have we cared so much about words and label sets.

This means that you're this, and that means you're that and that's a commitment that

well I don't know that I'm comfortable with. What's when's the wedding date

got two months from now?

You know what, honey, let's just...

Maybe we should talk about this some more.

The words I do.

I mean, it's nothing, right?

Easy to say, but there's an awful lot packed in there, isn't there?

No wonder people want their gender pronouns or prescriptions of the pharmacy or names of

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