October 15, 2021
Short Story Review – A Compact with a Minor Demon by Kay Chronister
What if H.P. Lovecraft wrote a story about the slow, crushing horror of being socially isolated and pregnant with a child whom you were, at best, indifferent to conceiving? Then you’d have something close to A Compact with a Minor Demon by Kay Chronister. This is both a compliment and a criticism. A lot of Lovecraft’s stories follow a kind...