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TBM-2208.07 – Mermaid Minute – Alligators and Crocodiles

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Mermaid Minute

 

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

I do not want to see you later.

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The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing.

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:19 — 2.8MB)

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TBM-2208.06 – Mermaid Minute – Monkeys

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Mermaid Minute

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

They are teeny teeny shrimp. Shrimpy shrimp.

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The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing.

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:14 — 1.5MB)

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TBM-2208.05 – Mermaid Minute – SeaShell Media

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Mermaid Minute

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

We don’t have YouTube; instead we have YouTide

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Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing.

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:17 — 1.4MB)

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TBM-2208.04 – Mermaid Minute – Telling Time

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Mermaid Minute

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

We do not use the tick-tock clocks.

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Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing.

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32 — 1.7MB)

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TBM-2208.03 – Mermaid Minute – Cannibals!

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Mermaid Minute

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

I did not know landwalkers ate their young…

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The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing.

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:10 — 1.3MB)

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TBM-2208.02 – Mermaid Minute – Soup?

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Mermaid Minute

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

Here in the water soup is something you eat… apparently for landwalkers it’s something else?

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The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing.

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:10 — 1.3MB)

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TBM-2208.01 – Finding Antares (for Nichelle Nichols)

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Nichelle - Uhura

Description:

#audio #memorial #flashfic #flashfiction #nichellenichols #spacesirens

Excerpt:

Every so often, there is a mortal being inducted into the siren’s sisterhood. Our linear, finite lifetimes necessitate that this happens only when such a person has finished her last song. When that happens, the sirens come to guide her past their mother-heart to a place where time has no meaning.

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The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing.

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.
  • Image Credit for this piece: e online
  • Song Credit for this piece: “Beyond Antares,” by Wilbur Hatch and Gene L. Coon, performed by Nichelle Nichols

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:47 — 4.5MB)

Breathe

TBM-2206.25 – Breathe, by Lynn Ungar

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Breathe

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#audio #poetry #spokenword #UUA #LynUngar

Excerpt:

“Breathe,” said the wind…

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The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing.

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:07 — 2.3MB)

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TBM-2111.30 – Shadow and Moonlight

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#audio #flashfiction  #fantasy #shadows #moonlight #flashprompt

Excerpt:

When I was little, my grandmother kept the moon in a glass on her bedside table. She kept her teeth in another glass right next to it.

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Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing.

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:43 — 9.9MB)

Mermaid Minute

TBM2108.11 – DDOP2105 – Mermaid Minute: Heatwave

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Mermaid Minute

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

We don’t have heatwaves. Sometimes we have heated waves.

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Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Mei-Mei del Mare, please consider subscribing.

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

Contact:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:57 — 1.3MB)