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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast 425 – The Bodies

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8975 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Another gripping and macabre tale from Drabblecast fan favorite Tim Pratt. Finding that first body wasn’t so bad, though it rattled me at the time. The dead man was curled up on a piece of cardboard in the alleyway I cut through sometimes on my way to the good coffee shop, and I would have […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast episode 425. The Drabble

0:17.4

cast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by

0:21.4

strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

0:25.0

I'm your host Norm Sherman.

0:28.0

Hope you're hanging in there folks.

0:30.0

Don't worry, things will get better, eventually.

0:33.8

Thousands of years from now, for rocks.

0:37.6

Consequences on this week's show,

0:39.5

but first, a hundred word story.

0:41.6

Treble. a hundred word story. Drapples are stories exactly 100 words.

0:47.0

Try writing one yourself.

0:48.0

Post in our discussion forums at forums.

0:50.0

Drabblecast.org.

0:51.0

We might pick yours for the show. This week's travel comes to us from

0:54.8

Lawrence Simon and it's called freeze that way. Here goes.

1:01.8

Mommy warned me that if I made a face it would freeze that way.

1:06.0

For the last time, said mommy, don't do it.

1:11.0

So I made a face.

1:15.0

Mommy saw it and she picked up her remote and clicked freeze.

1:19.0

I was unable to move.

1:21.0

Mommy had frozen me in place.

1:24.0

I could still see and think

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