




Podcast Host: Norm Sherman
Podcast Owner: goatkeeper
Website: http://web.mac.com/normsherman
Location: Baltimore
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Short fiction that is often humerous, often bizarre, always fun. Sci-fi, fantasy, wierd, disturbing- narrated by Norm Sherman
2/3/2010 | Download File (27.86 MB) - right click to download
The energy and personality of a person can get stuck before it evaporates from our world. Wood is a fair dumping ground. Something about its pore size and how cellulose vibrates. A person can get himself pasted inside the wall or the floorboards. The body and brain quit, but the rest of the bastard lingers, and that’s the weird quantum trickery that for thousands of years people have called a ghost...100 word story podcastRobert ReedGuild of the Cowry CatchersMusic by Norm Sherman, David Gosnell and Pete Anthony
1/30/2010 | Download File (36.97 MB) - right click to download
It was clown-hunting weather. It was time to gather the musty costumes, clean the slide whistles, bag up the guns, and spin the lures of cotton candy...3rd Annual Drabblecast People’s Choice AwardsU.S. Government gives crappy state back to SiouxChris FurstArtwork by Bo KaierMusic by Gringo Motel, Randy Edelman, Wayra, The Clown Orchestra and Norm ShermanSpecial Closing Music by Evil Masquerade
1/21/2010 | Download File (24.39 MB) - right click to download
The other gamblers ignored her. They were a mixed bunch-- middle aged men in ties and shiny suits, women in evening gowns, young men with gleaming teeth and haunted expressions. Roulette was a sucker’s game. Unless you were Cassie...Tim PrattWorld Rock Paper Scissors SocietyAbbie HiltonThe Guild of the Cowry CatchersMur LaffertyI Should Be Writinghttp://munsistories.blogspot.com/ Music by Gringo MotelArt by Philip Pomphrey
1/14/2010 | Download File (33.13 MB) - right click to download
Shadows move on the mantelpiece and the end tables. She freezes. The family pictures are moving. Brass frames buckling into bow-shaped mouths. They want to eat her.Don't be scared, she says. Of course they’re hungry. Everything must eat. And there isn't much food...S. Boyd TaylorNominate this story for the Nebula Award!Episode art by Skeet ScienskiSupport Disaster Relief in Haiti
1/14/2010 | Download File (33.13 MB) - right click to download
Shadows move on the mantelpiece and the end tables. She freezes. The family pictures are moving. Brass frames buckling into bow-shaped mouths. They want to eat her.Don't be scared, she says. Of course they’re hungry. Everything must eat. And there isn't much food...S. Boyd TaylorNominate this story for the Nebula Award!Episode art by Skeet ScienskiSupport Disaster Relief in Haiti
1/7/2010 | Download File (17.85 MB) - right click to download
Those damn raccoons were here again. I know it’s raccoons. Rather easy to deduce considering the scores of chocolate footprints everywhere....Steve LoweArt by Rudolpho ArrendondoWarning: Some foul language
12/31/2009 | Download File (26.52 MB) - right click to download
Rish OutfieldNick MamatasNaomi MercerArt by Sean AzzopardiMagpie YarnsMusic by Outland, Wes Montgomery, the Flaming Lips, Phil Cuneff, Sarah Ayers, the Gorillaz, Victor Stellar
12/24/2009 | Download File (33.26 MB) - right click to download
The crowd was lined up six deep along the parade route. They ignored the Deputy Mayor who sat, lightly sedated, between his doctor and nurse in the Santa sleigh. Instead, they chanted endlessly for the Marshall, who would not leave the stifling warmth of his coach, or even roll down a window to wave. Their applause echoed off the surrounding skyscrapers. "Take off your mask!" they cried...John AegardIn Search of the Monolian Deathworm: Part VDr. SeussMegabeastsArt by Skeet Scienski and Bo KaierMusic by Bela Fleck and the Fleck Tones, Cab Calloway, Glen Miller, Andre Hossein
12/19/2009 | Download File (36.60 MB) - right click to download
The Fire Marshall took office with a mask, a slideshow, and some compelling statistics...John AegardThe Comfort GuideMonika VaseyMongolian Deathworm (Just Another Lonely Night) MP3Norm Sherman CDArt by Skeet ScienskiMusic by John Scott Trotter, Cab Calloway and Artie Shaw
12/9/2009 | Download File (24.39 MB) - right click to download
We see it happen: the great machines of the merfolk coming up over the shore, rampaging through the city with devastating effect. We watch a robotic mermaid hammer her fist into an apartment block, the dust cloud from the explosion engulfing the nearby camera. It's quick, sudden, a surprise that's ruined by the later repetition of the footage... The MoviegoerPeter M. BallBrent HolmesCowry CatchersMusic by Chopin, Bartok and Schoenberg