# The Butcher — Short Fiction character guide

> The Butcher in Short Fiction by Fritz Leiber.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Butcher

**First appearance:** 0060-iv

## Who they are

A character associated with butchery.

## In the story

### [Time in the Round](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/time-in-the-round)

A young boy obsessed with the idea of real violence and danger, he disrupts the Time Theater by causing a warrior to emerge from the Time Bubble.

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