The Changer

By David Masselink

The victim has no power to counter their oppressor. But what if one used magic to escape from the bully?

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Masselink
• Release date: May 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463967126

David Masselink

David Masselink is a writer. He figured he couldn't make a living writing in Prince Edward Island, so he moved west. For many years, he earned a living in Los Angeles, and had no time to write. So he invented an hour at the beginning of the day, writes short stories, and dreams of moving east where the days are a little longer.

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The Changer

by David Masselink

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 1997 David Masselink

Georgie was not the type who could survive by himself, yet he was alone when he left the classroom. It was Friday, again. Although his pounding heart urged him to run, he walked with deliberate slowness down the corridor to the exit. He ignored the other students, just as they ignored him.

But Georgie’s isolation today was not unusual. No one ever paid much attention to him. He was very shy for an eight-year-old, and small enough to pass for a first-grader. His yellow-brown hair covered his ears and often his eyes as well. His grey-green eyes, in a soft child’s face, reflected a barely-contained wolflike anger. Yet they were frequently brimming with tears too.

His clothes revealed no surprises about his family’s finances. He wore a faded, once-blue T-shirt under a crimson jacked with brassy buttons and a chest pocket. His threadbare corduroys were awkwardly short, even for him. And his brown shoes fit all too well.

His family’s poverty wasn’t out of place here. Other children in the tiny village also wore old clothes already handed down too many times. The villagers knew that one could either work at the sawmill, or starve. Only Tom, the town bully, would not, and he blamed everyone else for his own misery. Georgie shuddered at