EP Poem: Making Monsters
Show Notes
Rated PG. May provoke disturbing thoughts.
Making Monsters
A Poem by Tim Pratt
He is the reason clowns so often seem
sinister, the reason mannequins and dolls
can be so unsettling, the reason a child’s
tricycle
sitting unattended in a front yard can be an image
suffused with dread. If he goes on
this way, who knows what other objects
will attain an aura of menace?
About the Author
Tim Pratt
Tim Melody Pratt (genderfluid, any pronouns) lives in Berkeley, California with spouse Heather Shaw and their son River.
Pratt’s fiction and poetry have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Erotica, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Asimov’s, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Subterranean, and Clarkesworld, among many other places (for complete details, see the bibliography). She writes a new story every month for patrons at Patreon: www.patreon.com/timpratt
About the Narrator
Serah Eley
Serah Eley is a chaos spirit who first appeared in 2013, from the right cerebral hemisphere of a former podcaster named Steve Eley. Best known as the founding editor and host of Escape Pod, with the famous signoff “Have Fun,” Steve realized he was having more fun as Serah and gave her the body for transition and general mayhem. Now much prettier than Steve and at least seventy percent weirder, Serah lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her spouse Sadi and collects stories too fantastic to be fiction. If you ask nicely she may even tell some of them. Very nicely.
