Author: Tina Connolly – The Drabblecast

Drabblecast 371 – Old Dead Futures

On November 16, 2015

There are two things I love, and one is the tiny grey owl outside my window. He is not afraid of me. He hoots and hops to my windowsill so I can stroke his downy head and feed him worms I’ve saved in my pocket.

It is hard to get the worms from my pocket, the way my left arm jerks up behind me and my right hand shakes. Often fat mister owl gets a half a worm, but he doesn’t mind. Mother minds picking the half-worms from my pockets, but I see how she looks at me when I calm my tremoring hand long enough to pat mister owl; I see how she loves me then.

Drabblecast 316 – A Memory of Seafood

By Drabblecast

On March 16, 2014

In Drabblecast, Sci-Fi

This week’s column is not about a restaurant, exactly, but about a memory. A distinct and painful memory, like a softened tooth you can’t help but poke at with your tongue to see if it still hurts.

A memory of seafood. (That sounds like one of those divine collections, doesn’t it, like a flight of starlings or a murder of crows? I remember when I was a mere seventeen, a slight but fully breasted slip of a girl, my best girl chums and I used to entertain the governor as he waited for his tea at the old tea house on Front Street—you Oolong afficionados, you remember it—and he affectionately called us “a flirtation of jailbaits”—but that’s neither here nor there.)

Drabblecast 204 – Doubleheader IX

By Drabblecast

On May 9, 2011

In Comedy, Drabblecast, Sci-Fi

Here is the first joke of Betty L. Duncan. Why do the three-eyed aliens bank on the moon? Because there is not enough sun to go around. Press the blue button when you have finished laughing…

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Drabblecast 371 – Old Dead Futures

Drabblecast 316 – A Memory of Seafood

Drabblecast 204 – Doubleheader IX