Things You Can Buy For A Penny

Title: Things You Can Buy for a Penny
Author: Will Kaufman
Published: Lightspeed, Feb 2015
Description, by Lois Tilton [Locus]: "“Don’t go down to the well,” said Theo to his son. So, of course, Tim went to the well. He was thirteen, and his father told him not to. There was no magic to it.   Of course there is magic in the well, and the stories passed on from one generation to the next, about the wet gentleman who lives in the well and will grant a wish if you throw a penny down to him. And how the gentleman is very tricky, so you have to be careful what you wish for, which should never be what he offers you. Tim knows all these stories, and now so do the readers......" 
Category:Best Short Story