I wish the whole thing tied together a bit more tightly. There’s a lot of stuff up front about the “ghost house.” The crow gets played up as acting very unusually. And then he tells the witch that it was his dog who died, not his brother. Yet none of that ended up paying off. It was just, “Oh, and for some reason rising from the dead turns you into a drooling pyromaniac, so I burned him to a second death.” It seemed like the first two-thirds was there to pad everything out, but it could be summed up in a single sentence without impacting any of the actual plot.

I did enjoy the reading, though I think it was a teensy bit overdone here and there. Not every line needs to be read in the “My Greatest Regret” voice, and the witch’s accent was waaaay over the top. (I kept expecting her to start telling Ed Harley about the old pumpkin patch.)

wow when the protagonist shot his brother, I didn’t know how the story could get any worse for the protagonist.

But the writer mad a terrible situation worse and in a way I could never have guessed good work!!

Never listened to Pseudopod before; I’ll have to remember to come back.

NeoGAF shout-out!