#Drabblecast

[writingpun-art]

my cover illustration for the Drabblecast story Personal Best! You can read/listen here

#drabblecast #illustration #horror art #podcast cover

[thoughtportal]

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   Enjoy an original,  previously unpublished story about snails of the plains gone awry by Joshua Bush called “The Witchita Drive.”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 the cattle when Billy came thundering down the ridgeline on his sorrel mare, waving his hat and hollering like he just seen the whole Comanche nation bearing down on them.

“Mr. Lee!” he cried. “Mr. Lee!”

Harry Lee — the top hand on the drive — trotted up to meet him, keeping his palomino well in hand so as not to disturb the herd any further. The younger cowboy was good in the saddle, but he was greener than spring horse pucky, and had half as much sense…

#Drabblecast 446 – The Wichita Drive #Drabblecast #fiction #science fiction #speculative fiction #short fiction #short story #short stories #horror #western #podcast #podcasts #snails

[rayjmaraca]

This painting is 10 years old this week. When I was asked to make some artwork for “Drabblecast Podcast” episode 259 “THE LAST O-FORM GIRLD CHILD”. ‘‘Twas a fun project at the time. acrylic on wood a painting completed for the Drabblecast Podcast - episode 259. Here's a link to the story! > http://www.drabblecast.org/2012/10/09/drabblecast-259-the-last-of-the-o-forms/ #drabblecast #drabblecastpodcast #shortstoryart #shortstory #TheLastOFormGirlChild #artJWB #10yearanniversary #artanniversary https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci_suAJMrUf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#drabblecast #drabblecastpodcast #shortstoryart #shortstory #thelastoformgirlchild #artjwb #10yearanniversary #artanniversary

[a-cosmic-elf]

Sharing this one for the Coemancer crew.

I was catching up on The Drabblecast today, which I highly recommend. They’ve recently had a ‘weird west’ season. They’re all great but I loved this story, I’m sure you guys will too. It’s only 27mins long. Check it out:

#original fiction #fiction podcast #the drabblecast #science fiction #horror #norm’s voice is just pure asmr I could listen to him for hours #a lot of stories are voice acted #like this one #rusty sue #arthur h. manners #the coemancer crew #you’ll love it

[timeofjuly]

i’m starting to get into western media! like cowboys and cowgirls :D Anything i should start with when getting into it? Any recommendations?

!!! I can ABSOLUTELY give you recs!!! This is just stuff that I personally like and have stumbled across.

Poetry

the undone cowboy writes to his sweetheart by Silas Denver Melvin. I'm pretty sure this is a tumblr classic lol but it lives in my head rent-free.

The Lost Pardner by Badger Clark (you can read it and some really interesting commentary by following the link!)

Fiction

I've really liked the Drabblecast's Weird West Event, which you can find here if you scroll a little. If podcasts aren't your thing, I'm pretty sure they have the actual story underneath each episode too. I liked Headhunting the best.

Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman. This is the sweetest graphic novel. I love this one.

Essays/Podcasts

Out West: The Queer Sexuality of the American Cowboy and His Cultural Significance by Hana Klempnauer Miller

This episode of the Heart, which also has a reading of The Lost Pardner! I haven't listened to anything else from this podcast.

Movies/TV

Cowboy Bebop, of course!!!

Firefly

Westworld

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - this movie is six short films and they're all weird.

Also! The Night at the Museum movies lmao - I am putting them here because they're amazing movies and because of Jed.

#asks for july #this is a relatively new interest of mine lol so sorry for the kinda short list! #i love queer cowboys :)

[eucatastrophicblues]

There was an entire ecosystem of podcasting that was completely different prior to 2014. Unlicensed fanfiction, original sci-fi and fantasy full cast dramas recorded on shitty inline mics and slapped together in Garage Band, literature magazines like the Drabblecast, pop culture reviews and news made by two guys in a basement, all of it. I’ve got fanart in a sketchbook for The Byron Chronicles. I miss those days so fiercely.

[natalieironside]

Do you have any good horror fiction recommendations? I’ve been wanting to broaden the amount of horror related things I’ve read but never really knew where to start outside of some of the popular works being mentioned

R.W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is my absolute favorite, and from that collection The Repairer of Reputations remains the best short story I've ever read. Big, big cw for unreality on that one, but that's what I like most about it; as an insane person myself, I think Chambers does a better job of describing what manic and psychotic episodes actually feel like than anyone else.

Very much recommend Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin and anything and everything by Eugie Foster (GNU), Clive Barker, and Halley Piper.

& if you do podcasts: Drabblecast, Pseudopod, and Tales To Terrify (which I have been on! wow) have a wide and varied selection of different stories by different authors, both big names (including a lot of classics) and small-timers like ya'girl.

#castaigneposting

[chizukurowassan]

#lit #Howard Waldrop #The Ugly Chickens

[batmonkfish80]

#short story review

[exitinertianovella]

Drabblecast 308 – Happy Old Year

The night I met Elsie I was up on the roof of my apartment building with a bottle of Kentucky Gentleman, because it’s sort of like bourbon, but cheaper, and better at blotting out reality. Technically it wasn’t “my” building anymore since I’d been evicted and had to be gone by morning if I didn’t want sheriff’s deputies to dump all my possessions out on the sidewalk. Joke was on them — what possessions? Everything I could sell, I already had, in a vain attempt to keep up with rent. What remained was so crappy I couldn’t even give it away on Craigslist.

[archiveoftheodd]

Between the Shelves: Excerpts From Notes On the Bag Game by Bryan Miller

The following story is by the fantastic Bryan Miller. Bryan Miller is a Minneapolis-based writer who grew up in a family of undertakers and went on to become a newspaper editor and standup comedian. The scary stuff: more than a dozen published horror and crime stories, including on The Drabblecast, in Shadowy Natures and The Monsters We Forgot, and other journals and anthologies. The funny stuff: standup as seen on The CBS Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Dry Bar Comedy and heard on Sirius/XM Radio. New jokes and stories via @realbryanmiller on Twitter.

Author’s Note: The Bag Game is real. A friend told me about this game/ritual their father participated in during his college days, but stopped after a terrible experience he refused to explain further. I was very taken with the concept and, of course, I couldn’t stop wondering what that horrible final experience was — so I made one up, which is one of fiction’s great conveniences. 

#Between the Shelves #Between the Shelves: Excerpts From Notes On the Bag Game #archive of the odd #found fiction #indie horror #indie horror zine

[thoughtportal]

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 people, but the killer’s name wasn’t showing up on my naughty list. That got me curious, so I poked around. There was nothing left at the crime scenes but dollops of sap and scattered pine needles, which felt less like sloppiness and more like a signature. I was in New York trying to track down the killer, but first, I needed a drink.

#Drabblecast 455 – How Lovely Are Your Branches #Drabblecast #podcast #podcasts #fiction #short story #short fiction #short stories #horror #christmas #christmas tree

[thehorrortree]

Taking Submissions: The Drabblecast Fall 2022 Submission Window

Taking Submissions: The Drabblecast Fall 2022 Submission Window

Deadline: October 22nd, 2022 Payment: $.06/word, $.03/word for reprints – for stories in the 500 – 4,000 word range Theme: All forms of speculative fiction, prefer ‘weird’ fiction The Drabblecast is currently open for submissions until Oct. 22. The Drabblecast is an award-winning online speculative fiction magazine and podcast that publishes “Strange Stories for Strange Listeners,” often also…

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[then-it-rained-drabbles]

The Cafe Divide

As Dover the Labradoodle swung through the doors with his gorgeous Red Setter date, every single head in the cafe snapped up with accusing eyes. Momentarily paralysed, he pushes himself forward and finds a table towards the back.

Times had progressed, but animals still lived to a certain degree of segregation. Humans still controlled their movement, and still weren't as free as their fellow pet counterpart. No longer leashed, but put on parole, hence the date.

Scarlet, being the impulsive type forgot this, as she pawed a waiter's attention.

This was cat territory.

He knew he should've been more careful

#Drabblecast #drabble #short story #creative writing #Hellcat #cats #dogs #cafe #segregation #misc #cat cafe

[irradiatedsnakes]

oh actually i have that podcast episode that jonny recommended on oen fo the qnas ill listen to that

#the drabblecast's i only am escaped alone to tell thee

[pyjamac]

postcasts that at one point i thought were the same podcast: the magnus archives, archive 81, the drabblecast.

#i dont know why! theres no real explaination! #shah mac #the drabblecast has (or st least used to have?) diff covers for every episode everybody take note thats super cool