"Devon Taylor helped fashion a local street magician called Harry Marvel into the well-known illusionist Harry Marvelous. In the seven years they’ve been together, Devon has worked alongside Harry onstage as his apprentice. To Devon, Harry is an incredibly sexy older man, and the love they share is nothing less than pure magic.
But in today’s world, even children find it hard to believe in magic. When Devon overhears a teenager mocking Harry before a show, he invites the boy on stage to help out with Harry’s famous disappearing act.
Unfortunately, the boy really does disappear on his way back to his seat after the performance.
When the show is over, Devon and Harry find themselves confronted by security. Harry insists his illusions aren’t real, but does Devon know something Harry doesn’t?"
The Magician’s Apprentice By J.M. Snyder After the show, a security officer is waiting for Devon Taylor as he exits stage left. With the quickest of glances, he sums her up—relatively young, early thirties at the latest, with blonde curls escaping her cap in wispy tendrils which make her look frazzled this late in the day. There’s a nervousness in her fingers, the way she taps her notebook and pen, that says she doesn’t want to be here. Me either, honey, he thinks, squelching a grin before it can escape at the thought. She’s unmarried, he assumes, or at least there’s no ring on her finger, so she probably doesn’t have any children, either, though in today’s society that’s a hard call. But when she sees him, she doesn’t fly over like a harpy, so Devon thinks yeah, no kids. Because he kn