Drabblecast: Episodes
<p>Please, mister, could I have a cracker for my oontatherium?” Not exactly the words you would expect at an instant when history changes course and the universe can never again be what it was. The die is cast; In this …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/06/01/drabblecast-284-turning-point/">read ...
<p>Old Tom was a very tall man. He was so tall he didn’t even have a nickname for it. Ned Black, who was at least a head shorter, had been ‘Tower Block’ since the sixth grade, and Jack, the owner …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/05/23/drabblecast-283-the-man-who-drew-cats/">read ...
<p>Through the dim forest came Liane the Wayfarer, passing along the shadowed glades with a prancing light-footed gait. He whistled, he caroled, he was plainly in high spirits. Around his finger he twirled a bit of wrought bronze—a circlet graved …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/05/07/drabblecast-282-liane-the-wayfarer/">read ...
<p>Pabstus Tack, Pabstus Sludge, Pabstus! Pabstus! Of him we sing. We sing his praises, it seems to me, for want of anything better to do. Pabstus Tack sits on his great golden throne, belching out light, a blinding light as …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/05/01/drabblecast-281/">read ...
<p>You’ve been one-legged since the lasso trap. Your personal ad says “Kids: undecided” even though you desperately want two. When the maître d’ shows you to your blind date’s table, you are pleased with her prominent forehead and symmetric face. …<div class="read_more"><a ...
<p>Gardner was drowning, and strangers were laying hands on the bones of my forebears. I felt obligated to see that liberties weren’t taken with my grandmother, my great-grandmother, and other good, God-fearing ladies, so I put the business on auto …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/04/11/drabblecast-279-the-country-doctor/">read ...
<p>Between 1347 and 1450 AD, bubonic plague overran Europe, killing some 75 million people. The plague, dubbed the Black Death because of the black pustules that erupted on the skin of the afflicted, was caused by a bacterium now known …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/04/07/drabblecast-278-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/">read ...
<p>The alien parked its car across the street from the shop and came and sat down in the waiting room. The mechanic must have seen this happen, peripherally. But he was busy settling the bill with a smartly dressed middle-aged …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/03/28/drabblecast-277-the-universe-of-things/">read ...
<p>The Town Council meeting was split down the middle — Hullabaloo colonists on the one side and Fenella Elane Tyne on the other. Jerram stood in the back and admired the way Fenella strove to convince the tired farmers. Pacing …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/03/19/drabblecast-276-hullabaloo/">read ...
<p>After the attack, my team brought me straight to the med lab at base camp. They must have commed ahead, because as soon as the stretcher went through the door seals, Dr. Traynor was yelling orders…</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/03/13/drabblecast-275-a-riddle-in-nine-syllables/">Drabblecast ...
<p>Every few day-cycles, it receives hate-scented lace in anonymous packages. It opens the bland plastic envelope to pull one out, holding the delicate fragment between two forelimbs. Contemplating it before folding it again to put away in a drawer. Four …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/03/08/drabblecast-274-amid-the-words-of-war/">read ...
<p>At four-fifteen in the afternoon, T.S.T., Garson Poole woke up in his hospital bed, knew that he lay in a hospital bed in a three-bed ward and realized in addition two things: that he no longer had a right hand …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/02/19/drabblecast-273-the-electric-ant/">read ...
<p>It was quite a party. The women wore gowns. The men wore tuxedos. Anthony Blair wore power armor. Armor that was sleek and black and polished, and made not a whisper as Blair paced the lawn behind his mansion, passing …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/02/14/drabblecast-272-power-armor-a-love-story/">read ...
<p>We listen to the spidersong. The spiders are far away, just at the edge of our senses, whispering a haunting and beautiful melody into our minds. The grown-ups are oblivious, as always. They are having several conversations at once around …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/02/08/drabblecast-271-trifecta-xxiii/">read ...
<p>When the alien fleet was first sighted just beyond the asteroid belt, end-of-the-world riots broke out in cities around the globe. But when astronomers calculated that the huge, silent ships would take nearly three weeks to reach Earth, all but …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/01/23/drabblecast-270-the-first-conquest-of-earth/">read ...
<p>The water fountains are low. The lockers are empty. The summer air is warm but there are people in the classrooms. People are talking, are moving. A female emerges from the nearest classroom. She is fully grown. She has dyed …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/01/17/drabblecast-269-bright-lights/">read ...
<p>Whatever you do, don’t call me Ishmael. Don’t call me anything at all. Give me my pint of piss-poor ale and leave me be in this yellowed corner where men relieve themselves when they are too lazy to make three …<div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/01/08/drabblecast-268-i-only-am-escaped-alone-to-tell-thee/">read ...
<p>Sandeer smelled her. It was just a whiff, a few molecules of something familiar and therefore sweet, wafting on a late afternoon breeze that otherwise carried only the usual: formaldehyde, benzene, dioxin, chromium, and miscellaneous particulate matter both organic and …<div class="read_more"><a ...
<p>The niece of King Death had not yet chosen a name. She was the only daughter and youngest child of Death’s sister, Merciful Grace, and everyone still called her by her baby name, Little Grace…</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.drabblecast.org/2012/12/18/drabblecast-266-little-grace-of-the-house-of-death/">Drabblecast ...
<p>“By the Earth-Stypei Treaty of The Twenty-third Local Year of Our Interaction, as amended, suspected Stypean sympathizers may be detained by duly empowered authorities only so long as the unbreachable sovereignty of the Stypean body-host is not violated, and only …<div class="read_more"><a ...