Pan

"Hush, child. Let me loosen that rope. Is that better? Can you feel your fingers? No more crying. You'll bring the naiads down from the brook. They take pretty boys like you into the dark. They'd push your face into the pebbles and keep your drowned body for a plaything. No, don't fear me. There're enough monsters on this island already."

On a distant archipelago, warped by the magic of a long-dead witch, is a boy with a spear and sharp, gleaming teeth. A boy who collects others like himself - lonely, destitute, desperate for approval. A goat-footed child who never ages.

Pan is charismatic. Pan knows all the best tricks. All his lost boys worship and obey. But when he snatches young Jimmy from his London home, he may have met his match.

Because Jimmy isn't fooled by Pan's sweet songs. Jimmy wants to go home.

And Jimmy knows how to fight.

PAN is a Aurealis Award nominated fantasy/horror short, first published in Andromeda Spaceways.

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First published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #62
2017 Aurealis Awards Finalist: Best Horror Novella


Genre: Fantasy