The Drabblecast

This week on the Drabblecast- a melancholy story about loss, abandonment, and the perils of old magic.

Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F&SF, Podcastle, Asimov’s, Vastarien, and Reckoning. You can find Avra on twitter (@avramargariti).

Drabble: “The Hills,” by Jonathan Lee Wilson.  Jonathan is an aspiring narrator and crafter of short stories.  Some of Jonathan’s voice work can be found on the Dunesteef, Anklecast, and Dribblecast. You can find more of his stories @taletellersuniverse on Youtube.

Art by Cindy Fan

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Stop asking so many damn questions. Come and listen to the newest weird story from Pop-Pop. He’s got something important to tell you.

Zachary Olson(he/him) is a freelance writer and composer from Phoenix, Arizona currently residing in Chicago. Updates on his work can be found on Twitter @obfuscatingGod and here. 

Steve Lillie Find them here: Twitter @SteveArtyPerson and Instagram instagram.com/lillie.steve

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Lights!

Wheels!

Wipers!

Curtain!

This week, a marvel of machines and carbureted choreography awaits you. 

Kay Vaindal (they/she) is a coastal ecologist and weird fiction writer. Her work has appeared in Seize the Press, Dark Matter, and anthologies including This World Belongs to Us and Death’s Other Kingdom: Horror Tales of WWI. Find them here. 

John Sowder (he/him) is an illustrator from Kentucky whose work can be seen in the comic book series HALLOWEEN MAN, as well as the recent anthology collection CRIMINOLLY PRESENTS GARBOLOGY. John’s pen and ink artwork has been selected to be part of a contest associated with THE MAGIC OF HORROR FILM FESTIVAL that will be held in Wakefield, Virginia on October 5th. Follow him here: Instagram 

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You have a ring on your door bell, and laid on your stoop is a brown papered parcel, tied with damp twine. You bring the package inside, noticing that the sky is tinged a weird green. You smell burning hair. 

You pull the ends of the twine, which is warm and wet and reminds you of manhandling spaghetti. Inside are dozens of magazines, “The Sherman Evening Post”, and as you move the issues, the covers invoke a strange feeling. The air around you is green now, and the last thing you see are the covers of these stories. 

Our authors are: Samir Sirk Morató, Christi Nogle, and Megan Kiekel Anderson. 

Our narrators: XioVox, Norm Sherman, and Nathaniel Matthews Lee

Our artist: Bo Kaier

Samir Sirk Morató (they/them) is a scientist, artist, and flesh heap. They are a 2022 Brave New Weird shortlister and a F(r)iction Fall 2022 Flash Fiction finalist. Some of their published and forthcoming work can be found in Rejection Letters, Seize the Press, and Neon Hemlock. They are on Twitter and Instagram @spicycloaca.

Christi Nogle (she/her) is the author of the Shirley Jackson Award nominated and Bram Stoker Award® winning First Novel Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media) and the collection The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future (Flame Tree Press). She is co-editor with Willow Dawn Becker of the Bram Stoker Award® nominated anthology Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds) and co-editor with Ai Jiang of Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia (Shortwave Publishing). Follow her at https://christinogle.com and on Twitter @christinogle

Megan Kiekel Anderson (she/they) is a nerdy queer neurodivergent dark fiction writer. Her work can be found or is upcoming in such places as Flame Tree Press, The Arcanist, Nightmare, and Monstrous Books. They live in Kansas City with her chaotic family including too many cats, chickens, and foster kittens. You can find them on Twitter and Instagram under the handle @megan_nerdnest or at her website at www.megankiekelanderson.com.

XioVox (he/him) is a voice from the depths, haunting your day, and bringing you into a world unknown. Follow him here. 

Nathaniel Matthews Lee (he/him) puts words in various orders. Sometimes people give him money afterward. No one knows why.

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Your curiosity and your inner voyeur are calling. Will you be able to meet their gaze?

This week on the Drabblecast we bring you “China Doll,”by Kelsea Yu.

Our artists is Matt Driver. Sydney based artist. Instagram @mdriverart

Read by the Word Whore.

Kelsea Yu (she/her) is a Taiwanese Chinese American writer and mother living in the Pacific Northwest. Her debut novella, Bound Feet, was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, and her debut novel, It’s Only a Game, is out now!. Over a dozen of her short stories and essays are published in (or forthcoming from) magazines such as Clarkesworld, Apex, Nightmare, Fantasy, and PseudoPod, and in various anthologies. Find her on Instagram and Twitter as @anovelescape and at kelseayu.com. 

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This week on the Drabblecast, become something new!  We bring you two stories about transformation by author Christine Nogle.  Narrated by The Word Whore.

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One, two, three, what’s that staring back at me? Four, five, six, I know what this viscera predicts…

This week on the Drabblecast, we are going on a journey. Pack your bags, and bring extra socks for the clown.

“Learn to Count with the Doomed Expedition” is a reprint story by T.B. Jeremiah.

T. B. Jeremiah lives near the ocean with an AI researcher, some small children, and some medium-sized trees; she writes sad stories and draws silly pictures of monsters. Previously she has been a janitor, history instructor, nonprofit marketing drone, and freelance illustrator and designer. Her short fiction has been published in Mysterion, Amazing Stories, and Bourbon Penn. Find her here.

Our drabble, “Totally Normal Treasure” is by Chris Clemens. Chris Clemens lives in Toronto, surrounded by raccoons. His stories have appeared in Invisible City Lit, Apex Magazine, and elsewhere.

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The sounds from the deep are coalescing, writhing through to your screen. Norm Sherman’s THIRD studio album: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drabblecast/the-instruction-book

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This week on the Drabblecast, we have arrived in the seedy side of space. The sign on the front says, “Boffel’s”, and the sensation on your back you don’t recognize. 

“Slime on My Hackles” is an original story by Jessica Jewell. Jessica Jewell (she/her) is a science fiction writer. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario with her husband and two daughters.

Our artist is Jen Czaja. 

The sounds from the deep are coalescing, writhing through to your screen. Norm Sherman’s THIRD studio album: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drabblecast/the-instruction-book

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