Hello and welcome to the Drapylcast episode 452. 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.

All right, what a week, what a week? What are we? I mean really, what are we?

Humans, right? Nothing weirder or more complex than that no more explanation or investigation needed there humans plain and simple

Sure I don't think most of us would disagree with the human part there, aside from perhaps the silent majority of lizard people out there, but what else are we?

There's perhaps plenty of room to color outside the lines on this topic, or inside the lines lines depending on how you see it.

What if you can't see it though?

What if the shapes the lines form don't make any sense from where you're standing?

How do you know where to color or why color anything in the first place what in the world am I even

talking about exactly see now you're starting to get it let's hit a hundred word story

now that we're on the same page about all this.

Drabble are bite-sized stories exactly 100 words.

So I started writing drabbles for fun, gah forever ago, just as kind of a low commitment way to exercise

some sort of creativity to get me in the mood, whenever I might be dragging my feet about

writing some music or a longer story or something. The cool thing about writing drables though is

that even though they're short they still walk you through all the steps of

storycraft starting with sitting down and actually getting something made and

ending with that moment of wow that actually came together kind of, that's

actually a story and not a bad one, if you do say so yourself, you cocky bastard.

From there you're in the mood, and you've got a little confidence and you're on the course already so why don't you go ahead and play a round of nine.

I also love reading drabbles because I'm of the opinion that there are a lot more creative people out there than we sometimes imagine. But the longer a thing is, the more

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