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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast 451 – How to Get Back to the Forest

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8975 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Warning: some explicit language. Join us this week for a little Camp Dystopia! The Drabblecast brings you a story about growing up the hard way by Sofia Samatar, called “How to Get Back to the Forest.” Enjoy! Episode Sponsor- “You Know It’s True” by J.R. Hamantaschen “You have to puke it up,” said Cee. […]

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0:00.0

This week's travel cast is brought to you by JR Hammondation's weird horror short story anthology

0:05.2

You know it's true 12 stories of truly dark fiction

0:11.1

There were three toilet stalls in the men's room at the Sunoco Gas Station at 7099 Brexville

0:17.3

Road in Independence, Ohio.

0:20.1

One of them was occupied.

0:23.0

If you were, say, washing your hands and looking at the stalls for whatever reason,

0:27.6

a mistaken glance perhaps, you'd see in the space below the door a man's feet his black work boots and dark blue

0:34.4

wrangler jeans. The man's feet reflects a little bit not staying stationary

0:39.1

but not in an unusual way just in the usual fashion of a man using the toilet, shifting in the usual

0:45.0

way a man does as he distributes his weight.

0:48.7

Men came in, most used the urinals, less fortunate travelers whose activities required the use of a toilet obviously

0:55.3

selected one of the two unoccupied stalls.

0:58.4

If any of those less fortunate travelers accidentally opened the door on the stall occupied by the man with the boots and the dark blue wrangler jeans.

1:06.7

They'd see that the disguise ended at his waist.

1:12.3

That was the intro to JR's story, 7099 Brexville Road Independence, Ohio.

1:18.0

A story that we bought and have scheduled for down the road here on the travel cast.

1:22.0

Just an example of the kind of setup I love in a good short story, one of the things that

1:26.2

J.R. is great at.

1:27.7

And hey, check it out.

1:28.7

We're not asking you to buy anything that we're not busy buying ourselves here.

1:32.3

You know it's true, 12 stories of truly dark fiction by

1:35.7

JR hammentation. Pick it up at amazon.com and paperback or Kindle. It's free on Kindle Unlimited

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