Monthly Archives: August 2020

Mermaid Minute

TBM-2008.22 – Mermaid Minute – Cursing

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Mermaid Minute

Description:

#audio. #mermaidminute  Me-Me del Mare talks about cursing.

Excerpt:

When a mermaid is mad at you and wants to call you names, she uses the b-word and the -c-word and the f-word just like the land walkers.

Links and References

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 banner 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: 0:50 — 1.1MB)

Mermaid Minute

TBM-2008.21 – Mermaid Minute: Starfish Pasties

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Mermaid Minute

Description:

#audio. #mermaidminute  Me-Me del Mare talks about starfish pasties

Excerpt:

We mermaids never need to wear bras to lift and separate.

Links and References

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 banner 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: 0:55 — 1.3MB)

Mermaid Minute

TBM-2008.21- Mermaid Minute: Ceviche

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Mermaid Minute

Description:

#audio. #mermaidminute  Me-Me del Mare talks about salt water and ceviche.

Excerpt:

As a mermaid, I don’t sweat, I phosphoresce…

Links and References

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 banner 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: 0:50 — 1.1MB)

Mermaid Minute

TBM-2008.20 -Mermaid Minute: Introducing Me-Me del Mare

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Mermaid Minute

Description:

#audio. #mermaidminute Introducing Me-Me del Mare

Excerpt:

We don’t have pet dogs in the sea. We have Blue Dog Sharks and Spiny Dogfish…

Links and References

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 banner 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: 1:03 — 1.1MB)

Steaming coffee

TBM-2008.14 – (De)Caffeinated

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Steaming coffee

Description:

#audio. #flashfiction Everyone has an evil twin.

Excerpt:

But she’ll enjoy the experience, even so, because he’ll lure her in with assurances that he’ll treat her the same, that her lips won’t know the difference.

Links and References

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: 2:54 — 2.9MB)

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TBM-2008.12 – Saturday, San Francisco, 1973

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Description:

#Audio. #shortshortstory #Nostalgia. Romance, weed, and vintage San Francisco.

Excerpt:

She didn’t work that day, so they got back in his car and went to find bagels and coffee. They ended up at a café in the Haight, not far from the diner where she worked. It was a busy morning. But then, all Saturday mornings were busy in that neighborhood, unless the Dead were in town. You could always tell if the Grateful Dead were playing nearby because the Haight would be empty.

Links and References

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the either Auphonic or  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: 10:12 — 10.6MB)

Feather

TBM-2008.07 – Deception Betwixt ‘R’ and ‘T’

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Feather

Description:

#Audio. #Flashfic. #Lipogram  #Fantasy A bar room magician cannot eliminate a letter from existence… can he?

Excerpt:

The food and liquor had flowed like – well, like food and liquor tend to flow in a place where the barkeep let you run a tab and the final check never actually arrived. Gourmet, all of it, or high-end where gourmet didn’t apply.

Links and References

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell,
  • 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: 4:34 — 4.3MB)

Zenia's Bedraglon

TBM-2008.05 – Zenia’s Bedraglon

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Zenia's Bedraglon

Description:

#Audio. #Flashfic.  #Fantasy Just a story about xenobiology, a little girl, and her dra – um – bedraglon.

Excerpt:

I gave the bedraglon – I was thinking of it that way, by then – a few minutes to settle, and was relieved to see that Zenia had dropped into a cross-legged position and coaxed the great beast’s head into her lap. Then I went to work with my shears.

Links and References

Credits:

  • The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the BossJock iPad app and Audacity.
  • Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
  • Music used for the opening and closing is a mix of Chris Zabriskie’s “The Oceans Continue to Rise” from the Free Music Archive and Kevoy’s clip of whales off the coast of French Polynesia from Freesound.
  • Chris Zabriskie’s song is also used under some readings.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:25 — 7.8MB)

Image by Leandro De Carvalho from Pixabay

TBM2008.04 – Mermaid Meditations 001 – The Reef

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Image by Leandro De Carvalho from Pixabay

Description:

#audio #flashfic #ddop A mermaid family pays respects to a coral reef.

Excerpt:

“That color really isn’t her best look, though,” my mother adds, and she’s right, because where once our dearly departed was rosy pink and bright orange with streaks of green and blue, now she’s a dismal, ashy grey.

Links and References

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: 3:39 — 3.6MB)