Howdy folks, welcome back. Feels like just yesterday. Five days left till our big

Kickstarter fundraiser to fund the travel cast and more every week for a whole year.

I said I'm going to give you an episode every day this week and here we are folks.

Another from our Drabble Cast compilation series,

The Top Five Drables and Twabbles. Now, I know we've probably got some new

listeners out there trying Drabblecast out because you heard about us relaunching

or heard somebody shout us out on another podcast.

You've gathered that the Drable cast is a short story fiction

magazine that focuses on weird fiction.

But do you know what a Drable even is?

The whole thing our shabang is even named after. Drables or stories exactly 100

words, no more, no less. Some consider them just great writing exercises and becoming a more

succinct and effective writer.

Some folks think of them as just good forced electric jolts

to the creative little parasitic thing that lives inside you

and allows you to write whenever you feed it nutrients.

But sometimes it still gets a little testy, doesn't it?

I like Dabbles for both those reasons, sure, but the real reason I like Dabbles,

it's just a great story format.

There's a reason that haikus are structured the way they are, that iambic

pentameter is. There are rules sometimes because sometimes you've got to understand the rules

in order to break them better. There are rules because no really don't kill me and don't steal

...