The Melting Potcast

Episode 11- Stoke the Fire- Prompt #3

Sorry about that prank episode yesterday, but not really. Here's our real April episode, featuring three brand new Stoke the Fire stories from the crew of the Disaster Kitchen!


Prompt #3- Each food in your refrigerator has a different effect on your mental health.


"A Taste of the Past" by Theo Kazmark, read by A. F. Grappin


"Interview with a Refrigerator" by Erin Kazmark, read by Theo Kazmark


"Cream of Whatever" by A. F. Grappin, read by Erin Kazmark




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UPDATE: There is a new audio file that has some fixes in the story "Interview with a Refrigerator." Sorry about the poor editing before!

Special Episode- APRIL FOOL'S!

Is it a Stoke the Fire? A Main Ingredient? Something else?

You'll just have to find out!

Episode 10- Main Ingredient- THE BURNING LAND by Jeff Brackett

It's our TENTH episode!! We couldn't be more pleased to bring you our biggest Main Ingredient story yet: THE BURNING LAND by Jeff Brackett.

Kapin Arik and his ship, The Serpent, are traversing the seas beyond what anyone has explored before. The mystical Seer, Uson, knows that the land they find will contain treasure beyond value.
Aboard the generation ship The Armstrong, Rayland is worried about the health of their crew. Luckily for them, a habitable planet is only weeks away. Can they make it before their ship kills them all?

Prompt #3 is now closed.

Prompt #4 is still open- A company has just received an order of "Fledges". They did not order these.

And now introducing Prompt #5- Something in the bathroom is your character's spiritual leader or confidant.

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Episode 9- VDay Special- Main Ingredient- VALENTINE'S DAY ON MOUNT OLYMPUS by Austin Malone

It's Valentine's Day, and we here in the Disaster Kitchen wanted to show our love! So we have a special treat for you, word chefs! A Main Ingredient story that is full of... the Greek gods! We give you VALENTINE'S DAY ON MOUNT OLYMPUS by Austin Malone


It's Valentine's Day, and Eros is not at all pleased at having to do his job yet again. Only Persephone, wife of Hades, can help. But how?


Special thanks to Jeff Brackett and Nobilis Reed for lending their voices!

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Episode 8- Botched Recipes

Erin and Theo Kazmark kick off February with another collection of Botched Recipes. Our bloopers are numerous, and we want to share them with you!

Note: there is some strong language in these bloopers.

Fans of author Sam Sykes might recognize one of his Twitter bits referenced, too.

Stay tuned after the outro for a special treat!

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Episode Seven- Stoke the Fire- Prompt #1

Welcome to a new year in the Disaster Kitchen! We're back with our last couple stories from Prompt #1- A servant gets asked to do something out of the ordinary.

"The Blunders of Lord Grahmaar Warmouth" by Martin Spernau. Find his Roundtable Podcast appearance here.

"The Butler Job" by Michael Bergonzi.

Don't forget! We've issued a challenge for the soon-coming Valentine's Day! Take either of our open prompts and baste it with love!

Prompt #3- Each food in your refrigerator has a different effect on your mental health.
Prompt #4- A company has just received an order of "Fledges". They did not order them.

Submit flash stories for our Valentine's Day episode by Jan 20! Check out our submissions page for guidelines!

Promo is for Hidden Harbor Mysteries.

Episode Six- Main Ingredient- THE FIRST CITY by T.C. Forsdike

It's about time we had another Main Ingredient episode! Our story this month is THE FIRST CITY by T.C. Forsdike.

Something is going wrong with Wilkens's plane, and he's crashed in an unpopulated jungle with no communications. In finding his way to the crash site, he realizes someone has already put out the fire. And that someone is there, waiting for him.

Special thanks to voice actors Evie Robinson, and from The Roundtable Podcast, Dave Robison!


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Episode Five- HIJACKED!!- Botched Recipes

It's NaNoWriMo, and A. F. has left the microphone on and unattended. Erin Kazmark has taken over the Potcast and is bringing you a bonus episode chock full of Disaster Kitchen soundbytes-- all the bad ones.

It's blooper time!

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Episode Four- Stoke the Fire Prompt #2

A little change of plans this month! We got a trio of Halloween submissions and just had to get them podcast!

Prompt #2- A common household object isn't what it seems.

We have three submissions:


"The World Wide Web" by Sarah Iozzio

"Vacuums Suck" by Justine Roberts read by Erin Kazmark

"Pearls" by Austin Malone read by Theo Kazmark

Prompt #2 is now closed, but we've still got two prompts open.

Prompt #3- Each food in your refrigerator has a different effect on your mental health.
Prompt #4- A company has just received an order of "Fledges". They did not order these.


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Episode Three- Stoke the Fire- Prompt #2

Our second Stoke the Fire episode! Prompt #2- A common household object isn't what it seems.

We have three submissions:


"Inside" by Nobilis Reed

"The Polymer Pattern" by Julayne Hughes read by Erin Kazmark

"Cardboard Time Machine" by Scott Roche read by Theo Kazmark

Prompt #1 is now closed, but this prompt is still open, and we're opening Prompt #3- Each food in your refrigerator has a different effect on your mental health. Submit!

I also talk about NaNoWriMo and the Roundtable Podcast- (It's Episode 59, not 149 like I say in the audio. My idiocy shows itself).

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