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Day 026

TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Twenty-Six

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Day 026

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At Fort Bragg, a soldier learns that discipline cuts both ways—and the man in the reflection might follow orders better than he does.

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

 

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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Eighteen

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In a Houston hospital full of glass, a nurse discovers that not every reflection wears his face.

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#MirrorMirror #Podcast #AudioFiction #Horror #Monologues #AudioDrama #DarkFiction #SpeculativeFiction #31DaysOfFright

 

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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Twelve

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Day 12

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A midnight call. A broken window. An empty store.
And in the corner mirror — a reflection that smiles first.

Mirror Mirror: Day Twelve – The Officer continues the 31-day October cycle, where every surface might be watching back.

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#MirrorMirror #Podcast #AudioFiction #Horror #Monologues #AudioDrama #DarkFiction #SpeculativeFiction #31DaysOfFright

 

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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Five

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A security guard.
Toronto. Twenty twenty-five. October fifth.

Night shift at the shopping centre is dull, except for the mirrors. I’m supposed to watch the cameras, but it’s the mirrored shopfronts that get me. At three a.m. they reflect nothing but me, me, me, all down the corridor like dominos.

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

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Merchild Christmas with Whales

TBM-2412.14-Dogfish Days of Advent: – Excerpt from A Mer-Child’s Christmas With Whales

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Merchild Christmas with Whales

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#audio #pastiche #mermaidadvent #mermaidlore #dylanthomas  #dogdaysofpodcasting  #dogdaysofadvent #dogfishdaysofadvent

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And on solstice mornings, with landwalker-entrancing song and candy darters, they would send me out to play and I would glide through the swaying kelp searching for news of the Seven Seas, and always find a barnacle-crusted whale by the deep trench or perhaps a clownfish with its colors dimmed by the colder water.

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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 Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing.

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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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Tales from the Cauldron

TBM-2310.20 – Itchy

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Tales from the Cauldron

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

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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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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.

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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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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:17 — 12.4MB)

BrassRings

TBM-2305.02 – Rings, Suits, and Joy

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BrassRings

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#audio #shortshort stories #carousels #GrimReaper #BasilandZoe

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Basil often reminds me that the universe is full of strange things, and not all of them are massive events. I resolve to think of the evangelist as one of them.

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Brass Rings

A Suit to Die For

Joy in All Things (A Basil and Zoe story)

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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 Me-Me del Mare, please consider subscribing.

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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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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:32 — 19.3MB)

Fairies or Muses

TBM-2210.29 – Fairies or Muses?

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Fairies or Muses

 

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#audio #shortshort stories #fairies #JohnCage #BasilandZoe

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Try thinking with your brain instead of your tits, girlfriend, and you might understand. Without belief, we don’t exist. Without stories, there’s no belief.

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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 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: 11:16 — 11.6MB)

Christmas Candles

TBM-2012.24 – Amazing Peace, by Maya Angelou

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Christmas Candles

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#audio. #readerstheatre #AmazingPeace #MayaAngelou #Christmas

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Into this climate of fear and apprehension, Christmas enters,
Streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of hope
And singing carols of forgiveness high up in the bright air.
The world is encouraged to come away from rancor,
Come the way of friendship.

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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.

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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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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:27 — 8.9MB)

Robot head looking front on camera isolated on a black background

TBM-2009.15 – From the Logs of Basil

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Robot head looking front on camera isolated on a black background

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#audio. #flashfiction #basilandzoe A look at one or two of Basil’s log files.

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The Cousteau has just completed a humanitarian mission to the planet we refer to as Aquaria  Three, though the native population – a race of sentient marine mammals not far removed from the Terran cetacean species – has a different name for their world. The organic beings among our crew have been unable to reproduce the name, but I have managed a close approximation that the locals told me was ‘close enough for krill.’

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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.
  • Photo by stock photo from 123rf.com
  • 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: 7:44 — 8.1MB)