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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast 453 – Trifecta: Modern Fairy Tales

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8975 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Drabblecast brings you three original stories this week (Modern Fairytales, if you will) from authors Alice Gauntley, Matthew Sanborn Smith, and Kevin D. Anderson. Enjoy! Our birthday was the first of March, and for two weeks beforehand it was all Caleb could talk about—cake, presents, and, most importantly, whom to invite. He would chatter […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast episode 453. The Drabble

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

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strange authors to strange listeners, such as yourself.

0:24.8

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

0:27.5

We haven't done one of these in a while.

0:29.1

Try effective specials.

0:30.5

Three different stories by three different authors, read by three different narrators all around some sort of theme

0:35.8

This week we're going to bring you a trifecta around the theme of modern fairy tales

0:39.6

Three Drepelcast original stories birthday Birthday Boys by Alice Gauntley,

0:44.0

The City Tongue,

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by Matthew Sandborn Smith,

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and Everything Poops,

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by Kevin David Anderson.

0:50.0

We're going to start things off with birthday boys.

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Alice Gauntley is a writer and public health worker.

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Her work has previously appeared in Plentitude magazine

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and The Heart House Review and is forthcoming in event.

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The story's read to you by Renee Chambless. Renee got her start in

1:04.2

audiobook narration in 2009 when she began podcasting her own writing. Her

1:08.6

recent recordings include Helper 12 by Jack Blaine and the Geek Girls Guide to the Galaxy by Charity Temaseb and Darcy Vance.

1:17.0

Following that will bring you the City Tongue by Matthew Sanborn Smith.

1:20.8

You've heard Matthew on the treblecast before and as fiction's appeared also in Tor.com

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