A Night of Fairy Lights

By Joy Bassetti-Kruger

The lights went out while they were eating dinner. Everyone moaned about how dark it was, until Cynthia had the bright idea to walk down to the beach in the moonlight.
At first James complained about the mosquitoes, then his wife fell into a hole in the sand and then James fell over a log and he kept reminding everyone that he'd told them it was a bad idea to go wandering around in the dark.
Then Cynthia spotted some phosphorous as it floated on the crest of the waves and glowed in the moonlight and they all stopped complaining. Cynthia said it was moonlight dancing off the wings of fairies and they all had a good laugh.
The girls later chased each other down the beach and then somehow they all landed up in the shallows. The mood had changed, but they had not realized this as yet.
Now wet and bedraggled they made their way back home and on the way some fireflies prancing around in the reeds caught their attention. Again they all stopped and stared at this marvel of nature.
At home, while drinking their Irish coffees, they all reflected on how wonderful their night of fairy lights had been. They also realized that just in seeing the amazing light show, it had lightened the mood and made them all feel happier than they had ever been in a while.
With their friendship restored, they re-lived the marvels of nature they had seen that night.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joy Bassetti-Kruger
• Release date: Aug 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310565267

Joy Bassetti-Kruger

I began my library career at the Jhb. public library, and while I worked there part time, I also completed my Library Exams with the SALA. Then I was headhunted by Ekom, as I'd specialized in information retrieval and they needed someone to obtain current information on various projects for their engineers. Later I moved to Control Data, where I learned all about storing such information on their large computers. All the while, I also taught ballet, modern and Spanish, dancing in my spare time, as I'd trained as a dance teacher while still at school. After I married I ran two dancing studios for adults, where I also began to teach yoga and passive exercises. In my youth I danced for PACT for a while, but as I was still studying at the time, -I decided to give this up, although I continued to dance in various productions at the Civic Theater in Johannesburg. -Showboat, The Merry Widow, Guys and Dolls, to name a few. As I'd also joined two writing circles previously, I'd been writing all along, - mostly short stories. But then an opportunity came up for me to include English Literature and Creative Writing in my studies, so this is when my writing career really took off, even though I never published anything until recently, when I first uploaded stories on a local SA site,then Kindle, Kobo and now finally that I've cracked the 'meat-gringer," I've loaded some new stories on to Smashwords, which I think is a really wonderful site for writers, as it forces us to confront all the issues and make certain that everything is correct..

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