Pan's Promise: Pan, #1

By Dean Shearer

There is one and only one good thing about living on the mountain: Luke has a place to run to whenever his parents begin to argue. 

 

But no matter how fast or how far he runs, he can't escape their screams and curses. 

One night, however, things begin to look up. 

 

But behind this curtain of hope lurks a world of dread and terror. Will Luke make it out alive?

 

 

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dean Shearer
• Release date: Aug 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201314286

Dean Shearer

Dean Shearer is the author of many fictitious works such as The Cat, The World is Magic, and the short stories series Selah, the Universe. He wishes there was more to say about himself (he likes studying religions and walking barefoot and reading and writing in multiple genres and reading and writing a lot) but there's just too much to say.

Book preview

Pan’s Promise

A Short Story

Dean Shearer

Contents

Pan’s Promise

Pan’s House (A Sample)

World Eater (Bonus Story)

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Also by Dean Shearer

About the Author

Pan’s Promise

Luke hadn’t been happy when his parents had announced they were moving out of town and up to the mountain. There was no internet up there, which meant no video games with his friends after high school. And it was a long way from anyplace fun.

But there was one good thing about living on the mountain. When his parents began to argue, Luke had a place to run to—somewhere safe and quiet, where he could be completely alone.

He thought about all of this as he pulled a sweatshirt a little too big for him down over his head, slipped some torn-up Vans on, and climbed out his first-floor bedroom window, hoping that he wouldn't be able to hear them from out here.

He could. Their screams and shouts reverberated through the forest, always ten steps behind him no matter how fast he ran.

The moon was covered by clouds, so the forest was very dark. Luke almost ran into trees multiple times, but this didn’t slow him down.

It sped him up. He’d rather run into a tree and knock himself out and wake up with an awful headache than hear his parents argue for even one more second.

He might have skinned his face across the rough bark of a tree once or twice, but he knew where he was going; he had run this route a million times. Now he came to the rocky path that led him up over the hill and to