The Team-Mate Reference Problem in Final-Stage Demon Confrontation

I scribbled down this humorous short-short on the train on the way to work. It turned out to be my first published story!

Published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17, February/March 2005.
Podcast in Escape Pod, 2/6/06. (Listen to this story)
Reprinted in Swedish translation in Fantasyklubben, 5/14/08.



It’s a fictional lecture on the difficulties caused by fighting something that can Do Bad Things if it knows your name. Well, it’s either fictional, or the author lives a much more interesting life than I do. It’s probably best to go ahead and read it, just in case. --Paul Iutzi, Tangent