I know I said I was caught up with my YouTube posts, but I was looking through my notes and I did miss a couple, so I'll try putting up those posts around one a week until I finish them.
This one is my reading and reaction to what might be the earliest example of Lovecraft's fiction: a tiny little short story (we would call it "flash fiction" today) that he wrote at the age of six!
Flipping through Weird Tales, I found this story with a disarmingly simple style and a very solid pace. There are a lot of stories in WT that really don't seem to belong there, but this one surprised me with a neat little twist that I thought was handled subtly enough that I didn't see it coming on my first read.
You'll probably catch it because I warned you, but it was a good story nonetheless.
So, I decided to do a reading of it, since it was pretty short. Enjoy!
Oh, by the way, I didn't try to do "voices" for this one but I probably should have. Hindsight is 20/20, I guess. Maybe next time.
If you'd rather read it at your own pace, you can do so on Internet Archive or Wikisource.
