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Piper’s Story (DDoP 2014 – Episode 8)

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Dog Days of Podcasting

Notes:
This is the story of our newest dog, Piper.
I also talk a little about our work for Shelter2Rescue and NoKill Rural Texas.

Piper

Links
Shelter2Rescue on Petfinder
Shelter2Rescue on Facebook
NoKill Rural Texas on Facebook
Madison on Petfinder

Credits:
Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom
Recorded and Produced using BossJock
For more of the Dog Days of Podcasting, click HERE.

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DDoP: Young Love

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Dog Days of Podcasting

In which I share another piece of flash-fiction from 2008: an observation of two people at the start of their relationship.

Credits:
Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom
Recorded and Produced using BossJock
For more of the Dog Days of Podcasting, click HERE.

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DDoP: Fairy Dust

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Dog Days of Podcasting

In which I share another piece of flash-fiction from 2008.

Credits:
Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom
Recorded and Produced using BossJock
For more of the Dog Days of Podcasting, click HERE.

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DDoP: Pictophone

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Dog Days of Podcasting

In which I share a piece of flash-fiction from 2008.

Credits:
Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom
Recorded and Produced using BossJock
For more of the Dog Days of Podcasting, click HERE.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:59 — 3.6MB)

DDoP: This Isn’t Treasure Island

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Dog Days of Podcasting

In which I share a 100-word “distilled moment” from 2009, and explain that polyurethane fumes made me sick.

Credits:
Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom
Recorded and Produced using BossJock
For more of the Dog Days of Podcasting, click HERE.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:23 — 4.9MB)

DDoP: Polyurethane

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Dog Days of Podcasting

Polyurethane

Roller Skates

Polyurethane has a couple of strong resonances in my life.

Excerpt:

The first time I heard the word “polyurethane” I was nine years old, and begging my mother for new roller-skates – the kind that have the smooth wheels like the rental skates at the rink. It must have been around my birthday, or maybe Christmas.
Shortly afterward, I received a pair of roller-skates with white leather booties sporting blue stripes, and happy reddish-pinkish polyurethane wheels.

Credits:
Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom
Recorded and Produced using BossJock
Copyright: hixson / 123RF Stock Photo

For more of the Dog Days of Podcasting, click HERE.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:18 — 4.9MB)

DDoP: The Truth about Sharks

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Dog Days of Podcasting

For “Flash Fiction Friday” – I wrote “The Truth About Sharks.”

Shark Fin

Excerpt:
“No. Nicky and Tony. Anyway, Tony had a raft – nothing fancy, just one of those inflatable pool toys – and the three of us were using it as a kickboard, not really paying attention to where we were, and suddenly we were almost at the ropes and buoys marking the channel.”

“Ropes and buoys?”

“You seriously need to visit the beach more.”

“We live in a landlocked state.”

“Details, details. Yes, ropes and buoys. You’re not supposed to swim past them. We’d drifted pretty far out – the tide was carrying us.”

“No one noticed?” He caught the end of one of my messy braids between two fingers and rolled it back and forth, tugging slightly.

“Oh, people noticed. The lifeguards were blowing their whistles and screaming for us to come in, and Aunt Nunzia was jumping up and down on the beach, a veritable poster child for the tern ‘conniption fit.'”

Credits:
Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom
The prompt, “Write a story about a woman named Desert Flower,” is from Sarah Selecky‘s daily writing prompts.
Recorded and Produced using BossJock
Image Copyright: harveysart / 123RF Stock Photo

For more of the Dog Days of Podcasting, click HERE.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:49 — 6.2MB)

DdoP: Her Name is Jane

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Dog Days of Podcasting

On Tuesday, my husband and I brought home our new car. This is the capsule version of the story.

Jane Honda

Credits:
Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom
Recorded and Produced using BossJock

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:16 — 3.9MB)

Something Old

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girlinanbathtub_via_istockphotoLooking through my hard drive and flash drives for something a little spooky, I found this story from 2008, “Something Old.”

Enjoy!

Credits:
Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Story Music: “Red Herring” by Sinfonia Electronique
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Recorded and Produced using BossJock

Creative Commons License
Bathtub Mermaid: Something Old by Melissa A. Bartell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:12 — 9.3MB)

Dog Days of Podcasting #18 – Chai

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Dog Days of Podcasting

Notes:
– Originally recorded on 30 August 2013, via Mobile Podcaster for iPad
– My last DDoP entry.
– Includes a reading of a short story, “Chai” from Pink Nighties.
– Link: Chai
– Podcast will continue on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning September 3
– Now, on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bathtub-mermaid/id696477879

chai

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:54 — 12.7MB)