The irony of Neverland is that there is no ever after. Or is there?
Nya is the granddaughter of Captain Hook, and she has no intention of letting Peter Pan live after what he's done to her family.
When she finally finds his hideout and goes to raid it with her pirate band, she's caught, something she can barely comprehend. It’s an even bigger surprise when she realizes she’s fallen for Pan, despite trying to convince herself otherwise, throwing her preconceived notions into a tailspin.
But what will happen when she loses all she's come to love, and even Neverland itself?
"It seems you have seawater and stardust in your veins."
Nya smiled softly. "You make it sound so romantic that way." She looked at him, his green eyes sparkling in the moonlight.
"I do specialize in eloquence."
I'm never good at figuring out where a story started or what inspired it, but with this one it was almost certainly the idea of the relationship between Nya and Pan. Enemies-to-lovers is a really fun trope, and one I hadn't written before this story.
I really enjoyed the description I got to write into several of the scenes: The opening scene, for instance, or the scene where Nya learns to fly. I enjoyed setting the tone of the scenes with the description and having a chance to paint pictures with my words.
Something that my reviewers commented on specifically was the twist on the mermaids and mermen in Neverland. Writing the merpeople was fun because I really enjoy both twisting existing stories and making evil appropriately seductive (because it is and I think it should be displayed accurately), so the mermaids and mermen are a reflection of that. They’re slightly altered from the original to make them even more appealing to their prey, which was also one opportunity to put my own creative spin on the world.
See what others have to say about it:
"I ADORED the ending, I was lowkey shooketh tbh." -- Gray Marie, Goodreads reviewer
"It's obviously a short story written by someone who also loves the Neverland world and characters, and that love was the driving factor in the story." -- Tabi Card, Goodreads reviewer
The short story is available in ebook format on Amazon for just $0.99!
R.M. Archer has been an avid reader since she was a toddler and has always been a lover of story. Her first exploration of the other side of the page was a mystery at age seven, and though her preferred genre has changed, her interest in writing has not. She's a homeschooled teenager living with her family in northern Virginia.
Read more about R.M. Archer’s writing at Scribes & Archers.
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