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TBM-2208.04 – Mermaid Minute – Telling Time

7 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

We do not use the tick-tock clocks.

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  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2208.03 – Mermaid Minute – Cannibals!

4 August 2022 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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Description:

#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

I did not know landwalkers ate their young…

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  • 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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TBM-2208.02 – Mermaid Minute – Soup?

2 August 2022 by Melissa

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: 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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TBM-2208.01 – Finding Antares (for Nichelle Nichols)

1 August 2022 by Melissa

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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: 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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Breathe

TBM-2206.25 – Breathe, by Lynn Ungar

26 June 2022 by Melissa

Breathe

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Description:

#audio #poetry #spokenword #UUA #LynUngar

Excerpt:

“Breathe,” said the wind…

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  • 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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TBM-2111.30 – Shadow and Moonlight

30 November 2021 by Melissa

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Description:

#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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  • Read the text to La Signora Della Luna

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  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM2108.11 – DDOP2105 – Mermaid Minute: Heatwave

11 August 2021 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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Description:

#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

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

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  • 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:

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TBM2108.10 – DDOP2104 – Mermaid Minute: Dinner and a Move-Sea

10 August 2021 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

Me-Me del Mare talks about her favorite move-sea: Gill-more Girls.

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  • 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:

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TBM2108.09 – DDOP2103 – Mermaid Minute: Barnacle Physics

9 August 2021 by Melissa

Mermaid Minute

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Description:

#audio #mermaidminute #dogdaysofpodcasting

Excerpt:

There are two kinds of barnacles, quirks and left-ons.

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  • 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:

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  • Or, leave a comment on this page.
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TBM-2108.08 – DDOP2102 – Menage a Trois

8 August 2021 by Melissa

 

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Description:

#audio #flashfiction  #liketheprose #seduction #fantasy #wine

Excerpt:

She was wearing a green dress that flattered her curves in all the right ways, and I couldn’t stop staring at her. She glowed, especially around her neck where a maroon choker rested, right around the hollow of her throat.

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  • 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:

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  • Or, leave a comment on this page.

 

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