Tag Archives: Flash Fiction

TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day One

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Mirror-Mirror-Logo

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October First

You remember the rules. Don’t look in a mirror in the dark. Don’t keep a cracked one. Don’t catch your sleeping face in a black screen at three a.m. You learned them from neighbors and grandmothers and the hush that follows a flicker in the hallway. You pretend you don’t believe them. You still keep them.

✨ Mirror, Mirror runs throughout October on Tales from the Tub. Subscribe so you don’t miss a reflection.

Episode Cast:

Melissa A. Bartell 

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Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day One

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:56 — 4.4MB)

TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Zero

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Mirror-Mirror-Logo

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Before the stories begin, here’s a short introduction to Mirror, Mirror — a cycle of thirty-one monologues. Each one is a self-contained tale, but together they create a larger arc. Some are strange, some unsettling, some surprisingly tender, all centered around the ways we see ourselves… and what looks back.

Day Zero sets the stage. Think of it as a prologue, a quick welcome before we step into the glass.

✨ Mirror, Mirror runs throughout October on Tales from the Tub. Subscribe so you don’t miss a reflection.

Other Voices:

N/A

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Transcript

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 blog header art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Sound Effects are from Freesound.

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Phantom Ship

TBM-2509.19-Sea-and-Stars

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Phantom Ship

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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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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:16 — 31.0MB)

Cardinal Sacrifice

TBM-2412.24 – DogFish Days of Advent – Sacrificial

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Cardinal Sacrifice

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#audio #flashfiction #christmas #christmastree #ornaments #spooky

Excerpt:

Mermaids don’t send Christmas cards because paper and saltwater do not mix well.

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Guest Voices:

N/A

Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me 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 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: 7:14 — 7.5MB)

Tales from the Cauldron

TBM-2310.31 – Fur

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Tales from the Cauldron

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#audio #13NightsofHalloween #flashfic #dogs #petownership

Excerpt:

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

Links and References

  • Read the text of Fur

Guest Voices

  • n/a

Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me 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: 3:26 — 3.2MB)

Tales from the Cauldron

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

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... 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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Guest Voices

Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me 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: 6:02 — 5.1MB)

Tales from the Cauldron

TBM-2310.29 – Musings of a Solitary Ghost

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Tales from the Cauldron

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#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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Guest Voices

  • n/a

Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me 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: 4:11 — 4.5MB)

Tales from the Cauldron

TBM-2310.27 – His Lips

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Tales from the Cauldron

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#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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Guest Voices

  • n/a

Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me 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: 6:36 — 7.2MB)

Tales from the Cauldron

TBM-2310.26 – Warehouse of Lost Dreams

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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.

Links and References

Guest Voices

Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me 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: 7:35 — 6.4MB)

Tales from the Cauldron

TBM-2310.25 – Basic Cookery

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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.

Links and References

Guest Voices

  • none

Support:

The Bathtub Mermaid is now on Patreon! If you like the stories and essays I share, and want to have occasional visits from Me-Me 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: 4:05 — 4.5MB)