Read ‘The Red Elk’ on Scrutiny Journal

Here’s my first published story of 2017 – The Red Elk. It links with previous stories Year of the Money Lender and Naoko. More to come!

Published by the good people at Scrutiny Journal who specialise in magical realism.

You can read my short story and lots of others here.

The Red Elk

It had never occurred to him that the red elk wasn’t real. For a year now, Sato had followed its trail through the thick forest around the mountain that people called the Sea of Trees and Sato called his playgrou...