Hello and welcome to the Dribblecast, episode 484. The Dribble

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. Boy oh boy the story

this week's gonna move you folks can't wait to get to it. It's a travel cast original

called Cosmic Bowling by Mike James Davis. Mike Davis is an author of the weird and

absurd. He grew up and currently lives in the idyllic Chicago suburbs. As a father of two

and a man of routines that surround his life, his stories escalate the

seemingly mundane into the absurd, sometimes the grotesque, sometimes

humorous horrors.

His work has been featured in Best of Bazaar Fiction, Volume 1, and Trigger Warning,

Curses, and his debut Novella, Strawberry Jelly Don Cream between a full review comes out this year.

Follow him on Twitter at Mike James Davis 1.

And so without further ado, we bring you Cosmic Bowling by Mike James Davis.

Yes, words were all blurred when smoke.

In the dark corner table

sits there's

Amanda. The B. Ooh. I'm a frequent bowler, very frequent in fact, and I'm a funky man.

I'm a frequent bowler, very frequent in fact, and nothing tickles me more than when my local lanes fire up an old throwback,

cosmic bowl. The nostalgia overwhelms me, and I know how dear it is my dad.

The pin monkeys love seeing me stride in with fiend-like energy,

with grins full of teeth like spares that need to be picked up,

they nod at my arrival.

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