Hello and welcome to the Travelcast, episode 479.

The Travel Cast is an audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by

strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

Well, howdy partner, you ready to get your West on, your Weird West?

The Weird West event is a special themed mini season of the travel cast,

featuring stories that appeared in the most recent Weird West themed issue

of our quarterly magazine, but tentaculum.

We asked writers on social media to submit Western stories that incorporated

science fiction, fantasy, and war elements. Why? Because we think it's cool, and boy did they deliver.

Each weird west episode the next couple weeks will include one of the winning

drabbles from our quick draw contest and be paired with a story. Hope you enjoy it.

We're going to start off with taming the Larva Lands by winner Matt Blairstone. Here goes.

Sowways a rancher, it's always a rancher's daughter.

Maggie sighted, fired clean, split the maggot's head in two.

Now get! she hissed.

The runaway daughter, just a slip of a sub-amago, looked confused, dripping in icker.

Grease quick, a mayfly swooped in a looked confused, dripping in Icker.

Grease quick, a Mayfly swooped and hooked the girl around her pro-thorax,

lofting her mucosa pound.

Fuck, maggot, that's my month's salary!

Maggie roared uselessly.

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