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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Thirteen

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She makes people shine for the camera — but lately, the mirrors love them too much.

Mirror Mirror: Day Thirteen , featuring Nuchtchas, steps into the bright lights of Los Angeles, where reflection becomes obsession.

🎧 Mirror Mirror is a 31-day October audio fiction cycle — one story, one voice, one reflection each day.
#MirrorMirror #Podcast #AudioFiction #Horror #Monologues #AudioDrama #DarkFiction #SpeculativeFiction #31DaysOfFright

 

Episode Cast:

Nuchtchas

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Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Thirteen

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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Nine

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Mirror Mirror - Day 9

 

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In Des Moines, a mother tries to comfort her daughter, who insists the girl in the bathroom mirror isn’t her reflection—but someone else who already knows her name. What begins as a child’s eerie game turns into something far more unsettling, as laughter echoes from behind the glass.

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

Episode Cast:

Nuchtchas

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Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Nine

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TBM-Mirror Mirror: Day Three

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Plano, TX. Twenty twenty-five. October third.
Clients trust me with their heads. They sit in the chair, drape the cape, and give me permission to change how they look. But lately I don’t trust my own mirrors.

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

Episode Cast:

Nuchtchas

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Transcript: Mirror Mirror: Day Three

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TBM-2507.25 – In the Tub with Nutty and Tek

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#audio #talesfromthetub #inthetubwith #interview #conversation

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Nutty doesn’t like the word “apathy,” and Tek might be reincarnated as an amoeba.

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Nutty and Tek from Nutty Bites 

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.
  • Special production assistance by Clay Robeson

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:32 — 23.9MB)

Prayer for the Morning

TBM-2501.01 – Prayer for the Morning

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Prayer for the Morning

 

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#audio #talesfromthetub #socialjustice #AudetteFulbrightFulson #WomenofDDOP #WomenofDogDaysofPodcasting #collaborativereading

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Today marks the advent of the new year – 2025. Much of the world is on edge as we wait for what might happen, and hope for the best.

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Guest Voices:

Amelia Bowen
Charlotte Kennedy
JS Diehl
Nuchtchas

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.
  • Special production assistance by Clay Robeson

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:03 — 3.4MB)

Tales from the Cauldron

TBM-2310.22 – Five More Minutes

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

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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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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: 3:34 — 4.4MB)

BrassRings

TBM-2305.02 – Rings, Suits, and Joy

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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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Stories:

Brass Rings

A Suit to Die For

Joy in All Things (A Basil and Zoe story)

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: 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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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: 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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Support:

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.

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: 6:27 — 8.9MB)

But the Wolf

TBM-2010.20 – Wolves and Tears

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#audio. #flashfic #flashfiction Twisted fairy tales and bottled tears.

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She’d cut him. Not her father, but the wolf. She’d drawn his blood while he never drew hers. Well, not with a knife. But she’d been a virgin the first time he’d lain with her, and that kind of bloodstain was better earned.

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Support:

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.

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: 10:44 — 14.7MB)