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A. A. A elderly woman named Maureen, neatly dressed and manicured, sat on a bus stop bench in San Francisco.

She was watching the leisurely approach of an old shopping-card vagabond up the sidewalk.

Maureen believed in being courteous to everyone, but the vagabond woman strongly irritated her.

Perhaps because Maureen had put her dear little buddy to sleep not so long ago,

and the gaunt, sunburned, wild-haired tramp was pushing along with other things in her cart, a box with a tiny

sick-looking little dog in it, a whip it.

That was the intro paragraph to a story by Michael Shay called

Sethagua.

Tethagua was a supernatural entity that was created by the author Clark Ashton Smith in

1929 in reference by H.P. Lovecraft in a number of his stories

and it's one of the many gibberish names you can

discover here at the H.P Lovecraft literary podcast.

We're here at H.Pongcraft.com, I'm Chris Wanky.

I'm Chad Fyfer, and that reader we heard at the top was the one and only Andrew Lehman, making his triumphant

return to the show.

Hi, Chris and Chad, it's me, Patton O'Leary.

I'm so excited to be in this recording booth with two of the, wait a minute, sexiest guys I've ever laid,

keep reading, keep reading, guys they really script a show out.

Wow, folks if you didn't figure that out, Chris and I. They really scripted show out. Wow.

Folks, if you didn't figure that out,

Chris and I are both in person together,

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