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The Thing in the Back Yard

David Gerrold

First published September 2014
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

As usual, our narrator is tricked into accepting a Bad Thing. In this case letting a half troll live in the back yard. The half troll digs a cave, smells, yells and grows, and the neighbours complain, and the police demand to see a licence. It's hard to find a way out of this situation.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 2014 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2014 Spilogale, Inc. MAGAZINE 232
September 2015 Cover Entanglements and Terrors DG Media Collection