The Candy Thieves

THE CANDY THIEVES
A SHORT STORY FROM AN EVERGREEN WORLD

The following Out-A-Ways short story takes place in the world of Evergreen. It’s a place of abundant life which endures despite being lost to history.

The Candy Thieves is a fantasy tale of two young and misguided girls, one human and the other a half-dwarf, both would be thieves, who attempt to swindle a crotchety old elf merchant out of his sweet medicinal confections in order to help ailing children. The lines that define morality blur when doing the right thing means having to do wrong things.

This story can be found in Out-A-Ways Fantasy: The First Collection of Short Tales from an Evergreen World.