Drabblecast 431 – A Promise

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8 • 975 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This week’s Drabblecast features a poignant story about patience, perspective, parenthood and the paranormal. We bring you “A Promise,” by Jennifer Hudak. Enjoy! I reach out nonexistent fingers to catch your arm, the hem of your shirt. You, there. Sitting on the edge of the bed, head bowed, dripping with sorrow. Your hair is thinning, […]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast, episode 431. The Drabble
0:17.1	Cast is a weekly audio fiction podcast magazine that brings strange stories
0:21.2	by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.
0:25.8	I'm your host, Norm Sherman.
0:28.9	What a lovely story we have for you folks this week.
0:31.6	It's a story about perspective, I guess you could say. How many times have you heard the
0:35.7	words uttered this year when will 2020 ever end? Maybe you've said it yourself I know I have.
0:42.4	We know exactly when it will end though, right? We have
0:45.2	calendars and Santa Claus for that. The question's rhetorical, of course. It's another way of saying,
0:51.2	not soon enough. Or not too soon I hope depends on who you ask and when you ask them
0:58.4	everything's about perspective right even years are about perspective. I mean, it's 2020. What does that even mean? That's how many years since what? Since everything started? Since pop-tarts were invented? No, right? Since Jesus.
1:14.0	Jesus plus two, Jesus plus three, Jesus plus four.
1:20.0	Perspective.
1:22.0	When's 2020 finally going to end?
1:25.0	You know exactly when it's going to end.
1:27.0	When the sun does a thing or whatever, that's when.
1:30.0	Things aren't going to get any better or worse because of that.
1:33.0	Time is about perspective and perspective is about you.
1:37.0	Its Latin root meaning, see or look through.
1:40.0	And speaking of which, y'all want to hear a damn good ghost story on this first fine
1:46.7	day of September 13 DC the year of our work can be
1:59.4	work is a promise by Jennifer Hudak.
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