The Test

by De Kenyon

INCLUDES BONUS STORY, THE SCAREDY WIZARD OF THEORNIN


Mari von Ingler is good for nothing, not making sausages or sewing a straight line or anything of use in her village, so her father arranges for her to be an apprentice to a mage...but only if she can pass the mage’s test.
But when the mage arrives, he only sends her out into the forest with no instructions but to come back and tell him whether she passed. She means only to stomp off into the woods and hide for an hour, but now she’s so lost that it would take magic to find her way back...

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First published April 18, 2012

About the author

De Kenyon is a writer and mom who lives near Denver, Colorado, in kind of a boring suburb, where she passes out horror books for kids every Halloween and has shelves full of weird crystals and skulls and one of those machines that you have to put in fifty cents every time you want candy. If you don’t want your black jellybeans, she does. The three neighbor kids next door think she might be a witch. She’s not a witch, but she keeps a scythe in the back yard just in case. She writes The Exotics series and weird short stories for kids. Her first short story collection is Tales Told Under the Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion & Other Stories.