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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast Presents: Far Far Away

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8975 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A special throwback episode. With One week left in the Drabblecast Reborn Kickstarter, Norm presents one of his favorite surreal stories from deep in the archive by Hootingyard writer and Resonance FM radio personality Frank Key, and gives us a teaser about Frank’s commissioned story for Drabblecast Kickstarter Supporters The bullet-riddled corpses of our dead […]

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Norm here.

0:05.0

Bringing you another episode of Drabblecast relaunch pre-launch content

0:09.0

as we inch closer and closer to the end of the Travelcast Reborn Kickstarter campaign.

0:14.6

One week from now.

0:16.3

That's right folks, October 17th, our Kickstarter wraps up.

0:20.4

You still have a chance to head over there and check out all our awesome reward incentives and stretch goals

0:24.9

You can find a link to the travelcast Reborn Kickstarter in our show notes or by searching for travelcast Reborn on

0:31.0

Kickstarter or Google.

0:33.0

Today I wanted to play you a classic from way back

0:35.7

in the vault of our archives that also highlights

0:38.3

a super accessible but highly impactful pledge level,

0:41.8

the $50 magnetic love monkey level. That level is named after one of the

0:46.6

most unforgettable aspects of one of the most unforgettable stories we've ever run on the

0:51.9

travel cast.

0:53.0

Frank Key's sci-fi story far, far away,

0:56.0

which you're going to relive or hear for the first time

0:59.0

in all its glory in just a bit.

1:01.0

As one reviewer's written, there are cult writers, and then there's Frank Key.

1:07.2

Described by the Guardian as the author who can probably lay claim to having written more

1:11.8

nonsense than any man living, Frank Keys, a one-man prose factory, whose utterly original stories, published on the Hootingyard blog and broadcast on his long-running residence FM radio shows have earned him a dedicated following on both sides of the Atlantic.

1:27.0

And certainly that is true of myself and other troublecast fans here in the States.

1:32.0

Frank's pretty much the guy when it comes to absurd surrealist fiction,

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