The Tattletail — Ian Rogers

A boy discovers taking care of his pet demon is demanding work, especially when he decides to enter the creature in his school's talent show. This short story is part of Ian Rogers's Every House is Haunted, a short fiction collection that explores the border-places between our world and the dark reaches of the supernatural.

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