The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

By Norm Sherman

What's The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast about?

The Drabblecast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that offers strange stories for strange listeners.

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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast episodes:

02.05.2024
Drabblecast 484 - Cosmic Bowling
The Drabblecast hits the lanes this week with original story, "Cosmic Bowling" by Mike Davis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.01.2024
Drabblecast 483- Snow
The Drabblecast wraps up 2023 with a Drabbleganza, followed by a story about tough decisions and leaving things behind-- a Drabblecast original by Em Liu, called "Snow." Enjoy, Happy New Year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.19.2023
Drabblecast 482- That Bloody Frontier
The Drabblecast Weird West Event closes out this week with another original story– this time with epic train shoot-outs, centaurs, and manifest destiny! We bring you, “That Bloody Frontier” by Sasha Brown. Drabblecast Patreon Cover art by Tristan Tolhurst Learn more about your...
11.24.2023
Drabblecast 481- The Alamo
The Weird Wild West continues this week with "The Alamo," by Cedrick May. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.05.2023
Drabblecast 480- Rusty Sue
The Drabblecast Weird West event continues, with “Rusty Sue” by Arthur H. Manners. Cover art by Tristan Tolhurst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10.09.2023
Drabblecast 479- Headhunting
The Drabblecast kicks off the Weird West event, with Avra Margariti's story "Headhunting" and 100 word story Quickdraw contest winner "Taming the Larvalands" by Matt Blairstone. Enjoy! Art by Tristan Tolhurst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.26.2023
Drabblecast 478- Cool Air
As the summer winds down and things cool down, the Drabblecast brings you a story that will give you chills! We present, "Cool Air" by H.P. Lovecraft. Cover art by Catriel Tallarico Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.14.2023
Drabblecast 477- The Eight-Thousanders
Mountain climbing might be more treacherous than you think. This week on the Drabblecast, we bring you Jason Sanford's "The Eight-Thousanders." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.21.2023
Drabblecast 476- The Pigeon
Norm talks birds on this week's episode, before presenting Drabblecast's production of "The Pigeon" by Michelle Knudson. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.25.2023
Drabblecast 475- Doubleheader- Donald Bartleme
A merry hanging and a game of jacks this week on the Drabblecast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.19.2023
Drabblecast 474- Exit the Professor
Mutant hillbillies on this week's Drabblecast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.30.2023
Drabblecast 473- Trunk to Trunk
The Drabblecast brings you an original tale of interspecies aid. We present "Trunk to Trunk," by P.B. Yeary. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.17.2023
Drabblecast 471 – The Monster-God of Mamurth
The Drabblecast takes you on an expedition you’re gonna have to see with your own eyes to believe! We bring you The Monster-God of Mamurth by Edmond Hamilton. Cover art by Bo Kaier The Monster-God of Mamurth by The Edmond...
05.15.2023
Drabblecast 472- The Hard Problem of Consciousness
#Hivelife this week on the Drabblecast! We bring you "The Hard Problem of Consciousness" by Andrew Giffin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.05.2023
Drabblecast 471- The Monster-God of Marmurth
The Drabblecast takes you on an expedition you're gonna have to see with your own eyes to believe! We bring you The Monster-God of Marmurth by Edmond Hamilton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
04.29.2023
Drabblecast 470- Personal Best
The Drabblecast presents an original story by Michael Bettendorf about sports, parental expectations and growing up the hard way in a literal way. Read to you by Renee Chambliss. Art by DS Oswald Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
04.29.2023
Drabblecast 469- Yummy Tummy
Dating is weird this week on the Drabblecast. We bring you a Drabblecast original, “Yummy Tummy,” by Chelsea Pumpkins, read by Word Whore. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
04.18.2023
Drabblecast 470 – Personal Best
The Drabblecast presents an original story by Michael Bettendorf about football and growing up the hard way. Read to you by Renee Chambliss. Art by DS Oswald Personal Best By Michael Bettendorf It’s hard to see eye to eye with...
03.31.2023
Drabblecast 469- Yummy Tummy
Dating is weird this week on the Drabblecast. We bring you a Drabblecast original, “Yummy Tummy” by Chelsea Pumpkins, read by The Word Whore. Tasty! Cover art by Michael Butkovich Yummy Tummy by Chelsea Pumpkins...
03.22.2023
Drabblecast 468 – The Bad Ones Are Always The Best
The Drabblecast returns with a sinister tale of generational ick. We present “The Bad Ones Are Always the Best,” by Michelle Ann King. The Bad Ones Are Always the Best by Michelle Ann King Marty’s grandson takes the cup of...
02.25.2023
Drabblecast 467 – Woods For the Trees
On this week’s Drabblecast, Dendrology meets Criminal Psychology. A story by Harley Carnell. Art by Bo Kaier. Woods For the Trees by Harley Carnell On the second day of our search for John Shaw, John Shaw joins our search party....
02.11.2023
Drabblecast 466 – Is This a Plate?
Ever feel Déjà vu on the road supposedly less traveled? Truth and lies on this week’s Drabblecast, we bring you an original story from Bob McHugh called “Is This a Plate?” Enjoy! Produced by Adam Pracht Read by Dominick Rabrun...
01.09.2023
Drabblecast 465 – Trifecta: Love Hurts
This week’s show has it all: vampires, evolutionary biology, and quivering jacked up Taylor Swifts. We bring you three flash fiction pieces about the complications of being in love: Taylor Swift by Hugh Behm-Steinberg, The Evolution of a Breakup by...
12.23.2022
Drabblecast 464 – The Follower’s Revel
This week we the Drabblecast brings you some interesting original historic found footage uncovered by author Jonathan Louis Duckworth called, “The Follower’s Revel.” Enjoy! Art by Bo Kaier.
11.11.2022
Drabblecast 463 – A Hymn Upon the Lips of the Dead
Episode Sponsor– Mothmen 1966 The secret’s out on this week’s Drabblecast, and nothing will ever be the same. We bring you an original Drabblecast story called “A Hymn Upon the Lips of the Dead,” by Mav Lux. Oh and Norm...
11.03.2022
Drabblecast 462 – The Tenant
An uncanny episode of original fiction this week on the Drabblecast– we bring you, “The Tenant” by Sarah E. Stevens. Cover created by Bo Kaier in concert with the midjourney text-to-image AI (and unidentifiable, scraped contributors). We hope to experience...
09.30.2022
Drabblecast 461 – How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map
Finally, a Drabblecast episode for weird foodies. We bring you a Drabblecast original called, “How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map” by P.A, Cornell. Enjoy… Episode Sponsor– Mothmen 1966 Cover created by...
08.24.2022
Drabblecast 460 – Distributed Denial of Sexytimes
Episode Sponsor: Mothman 1966 In this week’s Drabblecast story, the only scenes that aren’t sex scenes are crime scenes. We bring you an original Drabblecast story by Tim Pratt about a dark future of vigilante justice sex toys, called “The...
08.03.2022
Drabblecast 459 – 7099 Brecksville Road, Independence, Ohio
Norm is cryptic this week in terms of offering information on the featured story, “7099 Brecksville Road, Independence Ohio,” by JR Hamentaschen. He will say that that’s the story, and that’s the author. And to listen with headphones on. And...
07.11.2022
Drabblecast 458 – Plans for Expansion
The Drabblecast is molting! Norm shares some exciting news in the intro this week, Drabblecast has launched a Patreon, and a new quarterly magazine, “The Tentaculum.” Also, welcome new Managing Editor Cameron Howard! Finally, we close out HP Lovecraft “Month”...
04.13.2022
Drabblecast 457 – When the Sun Hits
This week’s show brings you an original commissioned HP Lovecraft mythos story by Nick Mamatas called “When the Sun Hits.” Afterwards, Nick talks about the story in an Author’s Note and Norm gives everyone an existential crises in a Drabble...
02.08.2022
Drabblecast 456 – In My Brain in My Body
Shark week on Drabblecast has never been so unnerving! Enjoy an original Drabblecast story this week from Evie Mae Barber about what lurks even deeper in the depths… The great white looked like he was having a good time, swimming...
01.01.2022
Drabblecast 455 – How Lovely Are Your Branches
Norm closes out the year and existence as we know it, due to the phenomena known as “The Continuation,” with the Drabblecast annual holiday Tim Pratt story, an original commission called “How Lovely Are Your Branches.” Enjoy! Somebody was murdering...
11.08.2021
Drabblecast 454 – The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Drabblecast kicks off H.P. Lovecraft Month with the grandfather of Weird Fiction’s cautionary dark fantasy, “The Doom That Came to Sarnath.” There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream and...
10.20.2021
Drabblecast 453 – Trifecta: Modern Fairy Tales
The Drabblecast brings you three original stories this week (Modern Fairytales, if you will) from authors Alice Gauntley, Matthew Sanborn Smith, and Kevin D. Anderson. Enjoy! Our birthday was the first of March, and for two weeks beforehand it was...
10.09.2021
Drabblecast 452- Watch Anya Blume
We’re getting back to nature this week on the Drabblecast, with Michael Piel’s original story, “Watch Anya Blume.” Enjoy! Anya Blume showered, slept, and showered again. Yes, she thought, she was beginning to feel human. Exhausted, sure, but human. She...
09.29.2021
Drabblecast 451 – How to Get Back to the Forest
Warning: some explicit language. Join us this week for a little Camp Dystopia! The Drabblecast brings you a story about growing up the hard way by Sofia Samatar, called “How to Get Back to the Forest.” Enjoy! Episode Sponsor- “You...
08.25.2021
Drabblecast 450 – A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Episode Sponsor: You Know It’s True by J.R. Hamantaschen This week on the Drabblecast, we bring you a classic story by Flannery O’Conner about simpler times and a summer family vacation gone awry. Enjoy! Warning: This story is being presented...
08.03.2021
Drabblecast 449 – The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One)
Dinosaurs gone awry on this week’s Drabblecast! We bring you an original story by John Wiswell called The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One), enjoy! Episode Sponsor: J.R. Hamentaschen’s horror anthology, “You Know It’s True” Free on Kindle Unlimited! Dinosaurs...
07.06.2021
Drabblecast 448 – Stay
This week’s episode is brought to you by J.R. Hamentaschen’s fourth horror fiction anthology “You Know It’s True.” Grab a copy for kindle or otherwise, here! For our story this week, take a trip with us to the Fourteenth Floor,...
06.25.2021
Drabblecast 447 – Echoes
The Drabblecast is on the scene this week, with an original story by Gail Ann Gibbs, read by Starla Hutchton, that reminds us that it’s ok to be a little weird. Or maybe even, SUPER weird… I like the way...
06.17.2021
Drabblecast 446 – The Wichita Drive
Weird things are afoot in the west this week on the Drabblecast! Enjoy an original, previously unpublished story about snails of the plains gone awry by Joshua Bush called “The Witchita Drive.” Yeehaw! They were down in a gully watering...
05.21.2021
Drabblecast 445 – Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death
Drabblecast wraps up Women & Aliens month with a gritty and intense story by James Tiptree Jr., aka Alice B. Sheldon. Hope you’re hungry! Remembering— Do you hear, my little red? Hold me softly. The cold grows. I remember: —I...
04.27.2021
Drabblecast 444 – The Hands of Heroes
What makes a hero? The Drabbecast brings you an original commissioned story by Cat Rambo this week called “The Hands of Heroes.” The thing is, I was never a hero. The first wave of aliens taught me that. The war...
04.16.2021
Drabblecast 443 – The Day I Didn’t Get A Pet Nebula
Who says Drabblecast doesn’t do Young Adult Fiction? This week we launch Women & Aliens Month with a fresh, original Drabblecast commission by Effie Seiberg. We’re grateful to be able to bring you this story this week! On the day...
03.26.2021
Drabblecast 442 – The Secret of Theta Pi
Sea creatures and sorority sisters on this week’s Drabblecast! We bring you an original tale by Stephanie Gray called, “The Secret of Theta Pi.” Enjoy! We travel back to Tandy’s Cove in a caravan of three, Cindy Q’s Miata leading,...
03.04.2021
Drabblecast 441 – Trifecta: Strange Futures
This week on the Drabblecast– three stories about Strange Futures. We bring you Drabblecast originals, “Department of Invention” by R.L. Thull, “The One’s Who Won’t Be” by Martin Munks, and “Cannabilism in the Inhuman Age” by Jaye Viner. Closing Music...
02.20.2021
Drabblecast 440 – The Earth-Brain
On this week’s show, every day is Earth Day when you’re living on an Elder God! We bring you a hidden gem from the 1930’s pulp science fiction era, written by Pulp Master General Edmond Hamilton!
02.06.2021
Drabblecast 439 – Rocket Surgery
We’d tested plenty of missiles before, but Teeny was the only one that convulsed when we cut him open. Oh, your listeners need more background? OK, I’ll back up a bit. Lemme tell ya, kids today don’t know their history....
01.09.2021
Drabblecast 438 – Midnight Clear, or, How Santa Claus Killed the Sun
Norm brings in the New Year with an original Drabblecast story by author Tim Pratt! This story is a sequel to last year’s Holiday Special story, “Comfort and Joy,” check that one out here! She was a blonde — the...

What's The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast episodes:

Drabblecast 484 - Cosmic Bowling

Drabblecast 483- Snow

Drabblecast 482- That Bloody Frontier

Drabblecast 481- The Alamo

Drabblecast 480- Rusty Sue

Drabblecast 479- Headhunting

Drabblecast 478- Cool Air

Drabblecast 477- The Eight-Thousanders

Drabblecast 476- The Pigeon

Drabblecast 475- Doubleheader- Donald Bartleme

Drabblecast 474- Exit the Professor

Drabblecast 473- Trunk to Trunk

Drabblecast 471 – The Monster-God of Mamurth

Drabblecast 472- The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Drabblecast 471- The Monster-God of Marmurth

Drabblecast 470- Personal Best

Drabblecast 469- Yummy Tummy

Drabblecast 470 – Personal Best

Drabblecast 469- Yummy Tummy

Drabblecast 468 – The Bad Ones Are Always The Best

Drabblecast 467 – Woods For the Trees

Drabblecast 466 – Is This a Plate?

Drabblecast 465 – Trifecta: Love Hurts

Drabblecast 464 – The Follower’s Revel

Drabblecast 463 – A Hymn Upon the Lips of the Dead

Drabblecast 462 – The Tenant

Drabblecast 461 – How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map

Drabblecast 460 – Distributed Denial of Sexytimes

Drabblecast 459 – 7099 Brecksville Road, Independence, Ohio

Drabblecast 458 – Plans for Expansion

Drabblecast 457 – When the Sun Hits

Drabblecast 456 – In My Brain in My Body

Drabblecast 455 – How Lovely Are Your Branches

Drabblecast 454 – The Doom That Came to Sarnath

Drabblecast 453 – Trifecta: Modern Fairy Tales

Drabblecast 452- Watch Anya Blume

Drabblecast 451 – How to Get Back to the Forest

Drabblecast 450 – A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Drabblecast 449 – The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One)

Drabblecast 448 – Stay

Drabblecast 447 – Echoes

Drabblecast 446 – The Wichita Drive

Drabblecast 445 – Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death

Drabblecast 444 – The Hands of Heroes

Drabblecast 443 – The Day I Didn’t Get A Pet Nebula

Drabblecast 442 – The Secret of Theta Pi

Drabblecast 441 – Trifecta: Strange Futures

Drabblecast 440 – The Earth-Brain

Drabblecast 439 – Rocket Surgery

Drabblecast 438 – Midnight Clear, or, How Santa Claus Killed the Sun

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