This week's travel cast is brought to you by the recently released debut novel by author Lindsay Lerman, I'm from Nowhere, Out From Clash Books.

I'm From Nowhere follows Claire as she mourns the sudden death of her husband. Childless, she has

has no job, no sense of agency.

She confronts a dying planet with an emerging sense of self.

Water is running out, the air conditioners run year round,

eventual extinction is impending.

Other men arrive in Claire's life,

circling like vultures. Can she reclaim her life? Can she set its terms? Can any of us find meaning in a dying hostile yet strangely still beautiful world.

I'm from nowhere by Lindsay Lerman.

Pick up a copy today from Clashbooks.com or Amazon. Hello and welcome to the Drabblecaste, episode 417. The Drabblecast 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.

Wowsers folks, this week we've got a full audio, full cast production of a really cool

space opera tale by author David D. Levine. It's got zombies, it's got steampunk, it's got

weird creatures and cool guns, it's got space battles and romance and political intrigue,

but at its core it's got those inevitable conflicts in life that we just never see coming.

And speaking of which why don't we get warmed up with a hundred-word story appetizer?

Dravel are stories exactly 100 words, perfect morsels of tasty weirdness.

We accept community submissions of Drabble Stories through our discussion forums at forums dot drablicast.org in the drabble section.

Anyone can give it a shot? Who knows? You might find your story here on the show next week.

Our Drabble this week is about unrequited love, Drabblecast style,

and it's called Footprints in the sand by forum member Ic in heaven.

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