TBM-2310.31 – Fur

Tales from the Cauldron

Description:

#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #dogs #petownership

Excerpt:

“What if it’s really a symbiotic life form, bent on taking over the planet?”

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  • Read the text of Fur

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TBM-2310.30 – Whatever It Is That You Think You Remember

... Think You Remember ...

Description:

#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #memorygames

Excerpt:

And you nod. Because you’re suddenly quite certain there’s a postcard of Liberty Hall on your fridge with Sam’s newest address.

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TBM-2310.29 – Musings of a Solitary Ghost

Tales from the Cauldron

Description:

#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #ghosts

Excerpt:

But she can’t feel the heat, or stand in the shower, or work the taps. Her hands can’t grip, can’t touch.

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TBM-2310.27 – His Lips

Tales from the Cauldron

Description:

#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #hislips

Excerpt:

His lips. Pressed together. Plush in a way that men’s lips typically aren’t.  Kissable.

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TBM-2310.26 – Warehouse of Lost Dreams

1730 - Dreams

Description:

#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #lostdreams #warehouse

Excerpt:

Here, on the first aisle are the Childhood Fantasies… things kids grow out of before they turn ten.

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TBM-2310.25 – Basic Cookery

0412 - Demon

Description:

#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #humor #demons

Excerpt:

He just enjoyed reading the recipes and trying to imagine what the various exotic dishes might taste like.

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  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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TBM-2310.24 – Heat Lightning

Heat Lightning

Description:

#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic  #heatlightning #faeries

Excerpt:

There’s flickering light out to the east, swaths of clouded sky lighting up and fading out like semaphore lamps, but the code they’re using isn’t Morse. It isn’t human language at all.

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  • Charlotte Kennedy

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TBM-2310.23 – Operation

Operation

 

Description:

#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #bathtubmermaid #operation #motherdaughter #carving

Excerpt:

The operating table had been draped in protective material designed to collect any leaking fluids or stray bits of flesh, and the lighting had been adjusted to illuminate the field with no confusing shadows.

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TBM-2310.22 – Five More Minutes

dream2

Description:

#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #bathtubmermaid #fivemoreminutes #faceless

Excerpt:

But I needed the dream-time with my lover out on patrol duty beyond the Rim more than I needed to be warm.

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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.
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TBM-2310.20 – Itchy

Tales from the Cauldron

Description:

#audio #13NightsofHalloween #shortshortstories #bathtubmermaid #vengeance #moderndating #MarkKilfoil #encaf1

Excerpt:

With him shirtless in his living room, she tries to alleviate his itch, but it seems that with every stroke of her short nails the feeling only gets worse. “Is there something there?” he asks. “On my back? A bite? A rash?”

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Mark, the Encaffeinated One

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