YOU-GO-BACK by Elise Forier Edie

A watchmaker tells of his boyhood job at the famed American Museum of P.T. Barnum, and how a demon was acquired for the menagerie. Keith Edie reads.
First published in Strange Tales V.

Author Elise Forier Edie is a playwright and author based in Los Angeles. Her most recent play, “The Pink Unicorn,” has been performed all over the US and Canada. Her short fiction has appeared in Metaphorosis Magazine and The Enchanted Conversation. You can find out more about her at her website: EliseForierEdie.com.

Reader Keith Edie is an actor and screenwriter in Los Angeles. He has appeared on small and big screens everywhere, usually as a likable geek, but also as a doting dad, an international spy and (most recently) as someone’s nightmare boyfriend on Lifetime television’s “My Crazy Ex.” You can find out more about him at his website: KeithEdie.com.

Theme music: Ashes Ashes by DeVM

Osgoode’s Chorus: Walking Along by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com

Additional music by Kevin MacLeod

Provider of Fish Heads: Kris Law

Keeper of the Hippos: Kevin Frost

Sidewalk Shills: Andrew McCurdy, Jed Dagger, Scythian

Outro: Molly Shipwreck