Commitmet Stories

'The Magic Shop' is a curious tale that follows a father and son's experience of visiting a 'genuine magic shop'. While the little boy explores the shop, seeing only joy and wonder, his father is confronted with much more sinister visions. The story, therefore, examines how we experience the world as children versus how we experience the world as adults. In doing so, 'The Magic Shop' forces the reader to consider whether innocence and evil truly exist in the outer world, or whether these are merely determined by our own perceptions.