My Friend Fishfinger by Daisy, age 7• by
David Tallerman• Narrated by
Marguerite Kenner• Audio production by
Jeremy Carter• Originally published in
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (Issue #30, August 2007)
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Click here to listen to Episode 262David Tallerman is the author of the YA fantasy series “The Black River Chronicles”, which began in late 2016 with Level One, the Tales of Easie Damasco series, and the Tor.com novella Patchwerk. His comics work includes the absurdist steampunk graphic novel Endangered Weapon B: Mechanimal Science and the Rosarium miniseries C21st Gods.
David’s short stories have appeared in around eighty markets, including
Clarkesworld, Nightmare, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and
Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A number of his best dark fantasy and horror stories (including this one) were included in his debut collection ‘The Sign in the Moonlight and Other Stories.’ You can follow him
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Fishfinger is my bestest friend in the whole world. And she says I'm her bestest friend too, even though she doesn't have any other friends, but I'm still the best anyway so that's okay.
Her name isn't really Fishfinger, that's just what everybody at school calls her, because they say she smells like fish and she looks a bit like a fish as well. And she does too but I still like her and anyway they all smell too so there. My mommy says it's mean and I should call her her proper name but Fishfinger says she doesn't mind, she does when other kids call her it because they're mean and they don't like her but I'm nice she says and I'm her bestest friend so it's okay. But really her real name is Samantha.Tags: Cast of Wonders, Dagon, David Tallerman, differences, dreams, friendship, H. P. Lovecraft, Innsmouth, Jeremy Carter, Marguerite Kenner, nicknames, religion, sea, Young Adult fiction
