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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast 506 – Window Boy

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Fiction, Science Fiction, Comedy Fiction

4.8989 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Silosibyn Sandalhemp (Cryptkeeper Norm) returns to host the Drabblecast Hallowellness Special, and the Drabblecast presents a production of Thomas Ha’s creepy short story, “Window Boy.” This story originally appeared in Clarkesworld.  Did you know Norm is working on an album? More details here.  Thomas Ha is a Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated writer […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast Hollow Wellness Special. I'm your ghost,

0:16.0

Silocibin Sandalhemp. Man, formerly known as Cryptkeeper, prior to my journey of self-discovery and insight.

0:24.6

It's been a while since Norm's had me guest hosts, after suffering that complete and total

0:28.6

nervous breakdown on the Halloween special years ago.

0:31.6

That was fun.

0:32.6

Norm told me I should take some time off after that, and also that he thought I was annoying,

0:36.6

so he released me for my Halloween hosting obligations, so I wouldn't be a workplace liability, and said I should look into therapy.

0:43.2

And then I involuntarily said scarpy, and he threw me out.

0:47.3

Suddenly, I was on my own, a self-loathing street skeleton questioning who I was, how I could walk up right,

0:53.5

how I could see where I was

0:54.8

going and project airflow out through my mandibular canal in order to speak, and how I was going to

0:59.8

make it in this topsy-turvy world as a cryptkeeper triggered by Halloween puns. I couldn't escape it.

1:05.3

You can't run from Halloween when you look like a goddamn costume. Everywhere I went, people would

1:09.9

toss candy corn at me and compliment my skeleton costume.

1:13.6

And I'd throw it back at them and say, you're all covered in meat.

1:15.6

I'm the only skeleton here not wearing a costume.

1:17.6

And keep your candy corn. It tastes like cargo.

1:21.6

I even stayed in and did nothing for Halloween.

1:24.6

And it just felt like I was dressing up as the government.

1:26.6

And that's when I saw the ad that changed my life. Tired of feeling lost, empty in some place other than a comet, it said, don't be not on the comet you could be. Come be on the comet you're not on but should be. Join the heavens teet wellness retreat. Leave your bones behind. Be Y O K. Be Y. Okay, I thought, and then I

1:47.9

saw under it was a picture of the Kool-Aid man breaking through a wall and into outer space,

1:52.4

carrying, as usual, a little picture of himself, his child. Something about those words

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