"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki (story reading)

[jonno52]

Saki was a fine writer: his sort of semi-pantheistic Edwardian romanticism is, up to a point, "of its time" but the element of strangeness is unique. His short stories are usually odd & funny and there's the advantage that most of them only run to 4 or 5 pages. Even with the increasingly limited attention span many of us have now, reading a Saki story won't take long & you'll probably want to carry on to the next one anyway ... Thank you for the reading.

[Ozrielos]

I met a woman in a library once, who claimed that "Shrendi Vashtar" was a place on the map of Russia, and that is how it got into the boy's mind...