Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast, episode 436. The Drapol cast 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.

Lovecraft Month continues this week.

We've got an original story by Adam Troy Castro.

But first, a hundred word story.

Drables, 100 word stories,

the grandest form of microfiction,

the name of the game around here.

If you like these little guys, check out our discussion forums at forums dot jabblecast.

org in the drabble section. We've got over 3,000 of these posted from the past 12 years. You could blow a lot of well-blown

time there having a blast reading through them. That's where we choose our stories for the show, like this one this week, called Knock by user Dr Bonzai. Here goes.

I watched as the girl passed from house to house, pounding on one door after another.

She repeated the same panicked process at each stop, several pounding knocks, a weight of ten seconds, a glance back the way she'd come, then quickly to the next door.

At each interval, she called out for help in treating whomever may have been inside for access.

I looked up the road in the direction from which she fled, seeing only the encroaching darkness.

Back at my window, she had vanished from sight. Then the knocking came from my door, accompanying her of the unknown.

You know, one thing Lovecraft's often known for is describing things as indescribable, unthinkable, unspeakable, and then

proceeding to try to speak about them or describe them.

I mean to some degree, and that's ultimately what's driving our attention and our focus,

these indefinable cosmic horrors and unfathomable circumstances

that he's outright telling us we're not going to be able to fathom,

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