Daily Archives: 19 September 2025

Phantom Ship

TBM-2509.19-Sea-and-Stars

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Phantom Ship

Description:

Tonight I have not just one story, but three—threads of salt and myth, memory and resistance—woven from sea and sky.

We’ll begin with a queen on the waves and a lieutenant among the stars.

We’ll slip next into the Bay that pretends to bless but always demands her price.

And finally, we’ll meet the Phantom of the Anclote, bound to a mermaid’s bargain, forever turning storms aside.

#audio #talesfromthetub #essays #shortstories #flashfiction #pirates #ghosts #mermaids #storms #startrek

Links and References

Free Women of Sea And Stars
The Bay that Storms Forget
The Anclote Phantom and the Mermaid’s Debt 

 

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music for this episode is by StudioKolumna 

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TBM-2509.19 – Mermaid Minute – Talk Like a Pirate Day

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MeMe Orange Swimming

Description:

So it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day. Which means every landwalker with a striped shirt and a “yarrr” thinks they’ve unlocked the mysteries of the seven seas. Cute. But let’s not forget: the most fearsome pirates weren’t just swaggering men with parrots on their shoulders. Oh no. Some of the sharpest swords, fiercest tempers, and cleverest strategies belonged to women.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute #memedelmare #talklikeapirateday #talklikeapirate #annebonny #maryread #femalepiratesruledthewaves

Links and References:

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub and Mermaid Minutes are written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using Audacity.
  • BathtubMermaid.com header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Music clip for this episode is Jolly Roger from Studio Kolumna via Uppbeat (License code: TJPGJXYBWHI7FCUG)

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:12 — 2.5MB)