Fair: A Young Man's Descent into Faire

By: Pagan, Robert Jerome

Nineteen-year-old Damion returns to a Renaissance Faire he first knew as a child. This time he is not one of the little boys being moved through someone else's Shakespeare. He is an actor. Richard III. One of the Queen's chosen favorites. And for one feverish season, he believes he has finally found the theatrical family he was built for.

Before the gates open, they construct a kingdom out of plywood, canvas, dirt, Shakespeare, alcohol, sex, exhausted actors, wandering children, and people who insist that everyone belongs. But the deeper Damion moves inside the Faire, the harder it becomes to separate freedom from neglect, discipline from cruelty, intimacy from violation, and family from the institutions that protect themselves first.

Then there is Garrett, a traveling henna artist whose touch asks rather than takes. What begins as something temporary becomes one of the few things Damion wants to keep.

Funny, explicit, bruised, romantic, and unsentimental, FAIR is a coming-of-age novella about theater, queer desire, power, survival, and the dangerous beauty of temporary worlds. It is about the places that change us even when we know we cannot stay-and the dirt we carry with us when we finally leave.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKVCWL3M
• ISBN13: 9798176678833
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"