Oh, it’s been comin’. You can hear it at night when the refugee traffic quiets down. Distant crashes, muffled thuds. Those spindly trees fall over in the front lines and advance the jungle another 15 meters. Or sometimes, it just sounds like soap bubbles fizzing down to scum…

This week The Drabblecast brings you “Bone Sigh,” by legendary author Tim Pratt! But first we bring you the continuing adventures of cryptozoologist Connor Choadsworth: In Search of the Mongolian Death Worm: Part Three. Tim Pratt has written multiple stories for the Drabblecast and this one is quite horrific. Story Excerpt: I put the tenderizer […]

The Drabblecast presents “Storm Comes A’ Callin'” by Jeremiah Tolbert. We also introduce cryptozoologist Connor Choadsworth in his hunt across the Gobi Desert for the Mongolian Deathworm. Jeremiah has had an impact in the Science Fiction world since 2001 and is currently the editor of Escape Pod. Story Excerpt: I heft the axe. Lighter now, […]

Trifecta 9, dinosaurs, love, monsters, everything you need. Featuring works by Bruce Holland Rogers, Steve Calvert and Bruce Boston.

Annabelle’s mother closed her eyes. “Get it sharp,” she said. “Very sharp, so it doesn’t hurt much. I’ll boil some water.” Somewhere in the house, far from the green places she’d known, baby Annabelle lay on her stomach and cried…

“You’re looking for people to mind the ghosts?” I asked, as I signed for the co-pay…

Now that his supernal caress has become the familiar sanctum of her nights, she fears that no mere human partner could ever satisfy her again… This episode starts with Norm announcing the return of the Nigerian Scam Spam contest, now with a tight $100 prize! The Drabble concerns a Martian trying to deal with erratic […]

He folds his barely eaten burrito away in its paper wrapper and regards me seriously with his warm, friendly eyes. “I have a *lot* of frequent flier miles. I’d be more than happy to share them.” I understand that we’re not talking about the kind of miles the airlines give you. This has nothing to […]

The village of Kriegerwald on the shores of Lake Teufel high in the Swiss Alps couldonly be reached by foot or ski lift, which suited the villagers. Each villager possessed broadforeheads and flat noses with strange guttural accents even the people in the valley below barelyunderstood. They also had a singular tourist attraction, popular enough […]