| "The Tattletail" |
| Published in: |
Dark Wisdom #9 |
| Reprinted in: |
Spin (Finland) |
| Date: |
May 2006 (Dark Wisdom)
May 2008 (Spin) |
| Ordering: |
Sold out at the publisher, but you can still find copies at these
locations:
Clarkesworld Books
Shocklines
Spin |
| Synopsis: |
A story about a boy and his demon.
This was my first professional sale, what more can I say? The editor liked the story, said my writing was
good and that I had talent, and the rest is history.
"The Tattletail" is actually part of a series of interconnected stories about the Smith family and
their encounters with the supernatural. The original title, and the one I'll probably end up using if all of
the Smith family stories are ever published in a collection, is "Tad and the Tattletail." |
| Reviews: |
"The Tattletail" by Ian Rogers was a funny piece about a boy who
summons a demon for elementary school show-and-tell. This, in itself, is not strange at all, for the
boy solicits advice from his father as if he were doing no more than making a greenhouse to grow bean
sprouts in styrofoam cups. Yet when we learn the demon takes on the form of whatever it eats, the story
gets interesting, with a strong ending rounding everything out. This is a close second to
"Acceptable Losses" and only loses out because of its humor element, oddly-placed for a
magazine featuring dark fiction."
– SFReader.com
A positive review of the magazine in which "The Tattetail" is listed as one of the "notable" stories. – G-POP |
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