Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast, episode 468.

The Drapelcast is an audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to strange listeners,

such as yourself. I'm your host, Norm Sherman. Great show for you folks this week. We bring

you, The Bad Ones Are Always the Best, by Michelle Ann King. Michelle lives in Essex, England,

and is a writer of speculative crime and horror fiction. Her works appeared in over 100 different venues, including Strange Horizons, Interzone, Black, England, and is a writer of speculative crime and horror fiction. Her works appeared

in over a hundred different venues, including Strange Horizons, Interzone, Black Static, and

Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Her favorite writers include Stephen King,

Tanya French, and Terry Pratchett. She's published two short story collections available on

Amazon and other online retailers in ebook and paperback format.

Full details can be found at www.transientcactus.co.uk.

The story originally appeared in K-Zine, May of 2020.

And so without further ado, we bring you,

The Bad Ones are Always the Best by Michelle and King.

The Bad Ones are Always the Best by Michelle Ann King.

Marty's grandson takes the cup of tea he's offered, without saying thank you, mind you, and stares at it dubiously, as if he doesn't know what it is.

Marty wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't.

Kids all seem to be brought up on vitamin water and kale juice these days.

Drink up, he says, nodding encouragingly.

Marty's cuppa's are the real thing, brewed until they're the color of brick dust and made with full fat milk, four sugars, and a thimble

of whiskey. It'll put hairs on your chest. Gary, no, Garrett, Marty's been corrected on that point

at least twice already, doesn't seem impressed by the thought. No doubt he'd just have to wax them off

afterwards, because God forbid he should spoil any of the smooth

...