― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens *
illustration by Arthur Rackham (hittin' it out of the park, as always)
*this is such a weird story. The prototype for what eventually became the play and then novel Peter Pan, this novella is both a little morbid and desperately tragic. As if the story wasn't already messed up enough, now you get the first hand experience of Peter discovering his mother has "replaced" him, and the little naked boy running around in the snow burying the children that have died after getting locked into the park at night. So. Weird.
