# Eustace — Short Fiction character guide

> Eustace in Short Fiction by R. A. Lafferty.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0000-the-six-fingers-of-time

## Who they are

A named character with a limited but notable presence.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_45_se/chapters/ii)

Eustace is a black grub who paints the blob's portrait and suggests the name George Albert Leroy Ellery McIntosh.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_45_se/chapters/iii)

Teaches the blob comic ballads; receives a sports car as a gift from the blob.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_45_se/chapters/iv)

Eustace tells the blob he cannot afford to be seen with him anymore due to his social position.

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