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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast Director’s Cut: Morris and the Machine

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8975 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The Relaunch Prelaunch marches forward as we present the listener-requested “Director’s Cut: Morris and the Machine.” This fan-favorite story originally aired in 2010. It is a haunting tale about relationships, time travel, and the poisonous nature of nostalgia. Author Tim Pratt lives in Berkely, CA and has been featured on the Drabblecast many times. He […]

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0:00.0

More travel cast, relaunch, pre-launch, kick assery coming your way this week.

0:10.0

As we listen to Tim Pratt's tragic, sad, and beautifully poignant time-traveling story, Morris and

0:15.8

The Machine.

0:17.2

Then listen in part two as I get together with Tim himself to listen through and talk about

0:21.3

the story, about theories on time travel,

0:23.9

about writing good villains, and about finding meaning and fulfillment in life.

0:28.4

Stick around for the end where Tim reads a poem of his that he wrote for his wife on Valentine's Day.

0:34.2

You won't want to miss on this week's travel cast, Directors Cut Special, Morris and

0:39.2

The Machine by Tim Pratt. Oh, Before we get going with our show this week folks you might be like dang

1:09.8

treble cast is cranking out like two special episodes a week here at least.

1:14.0

What's the special occasion?

1:15.0

Well, if you missed our short Metacast episode a few weeks back in June, you'll have missed

1:20.1

the big news.

1:21.6

Travel Cast is coming back in a big way. For the past 10 years or so I've brought

1:25.8

you this podcast along with an awesome and dedicated team of volunteers basically as a side

1:31.0

project after work on weekends and the wee hours of the night.

1:35.0

And, fuck that mess.

1:37.0

I quit my job because I want to bring you folks even more boatloads of fun, different top-notch stories and content for a living.

1:45.0

Hopefully you're keen on the idea too because, he kind of need your help to make that happen.

1:51.0

We're doing a big kick-starter in the fall to set us up for a big relaunch and until then

1:55.0

you're going to get cool stuff like this week's episode as part of our relaunch

1:58.7

pre-launch campaign. What can you do to help? Well you can go to drabblecast.org and sign up for our mailing list there,

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