Overcast 113: The Lesser of Two Evils by Shane Halbach

The Overcast

Published on Sep 27th at 1:45am

The Lesser of Two Evils by Shane Halbach. Narrated by J.S. Arquin. Featuring an afterword recorded by Shane Halbach. #fantasy #humor #techsupport #corporateevil 

"Effective immediately, you will relocate your desk to the IT room in the basement."

She slid an access card across the table.

"The server room?" asked Ian, brightening. So that's where Suresh was always hiding out. Nobody would ever be able to find Ian down there; this might not be so bad after all. Behind a special access door and everything.

"You'll be responsible for everything in that room," Beth continued, "which is really just one thing: a captive demon."

Shane Halbach is a writer and blogger living in Chicago with his wife and three kids, where he writes software by day and avoids writing stories by night. His fiction has appeared in Analog, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, and The Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction, among others. He blogs regularly at shanehalbach.com, or can be found on Twitter @shanehalbach.

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