Voices of the Future: Stories of Courage & Compassion
Featuring “The Colors in the Well” by Sarah Pagel
The second edition of Voices of the Future weaves together short stories of courage and compassion in a memorable and heartwarming multi-genre collection. Experience the next generation’s creativity and vision through stories from rising young creatives.
100% of the proceeds go to helping students attend writing conferences.
SARAH PAGEL
Sarah Pagel grew up finding pockets of magic in the seams of her ordinary Midwest town. Now, she writes stories that infuse the real world with the wondrous and offer a haven for kids who feel out of place.
In her spare time, you can find her searching for the best earl gray latte, listening to Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 1, or acting as a governess to other people’s dogs through the pet-sitting business she started in high school.
"The Colors in the Well"
Ivy is cursed—at least, that’s what all the kids at school whisper.
With her secondhand clothes and whimsical love of art, Ivy was never as popular as her older sister. But after she touches the school’s haunted well, the students are convinced she’s doomed to fall down it just like a girl did fifty years ago. They treat her like an outcast, throwing her watercolor tin into the well.
The only way to break the curse? Climb down the well, retrieve her paints, and make it back up to prove the haunted well has let her go. But what Ivy doesn’t know is that an ancient creature waits for her at the bottom—and it’s far more than a myth.
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