Bud Mushroom and the Nefarious Trousers

By C.C. Naughton

Bud Mushroom, Useful Fairy, is playing hide-and-seek with a skunk when he is suddenly caught and caged by Pixies. Even worse, they force him to wear Trousers! When they take away his Useful Magic, he must rely on his wits - and his friends - to save his home of Twinkle Dingle, and more importantly, to Remove the Nefarious Trousers. Part of the ‘Tales of Twinkle Dingle’.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.C. Naughton
• Release date: Nov 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370858859

C.C. Naughton

C.C. Naughton is the author of two fantasy series, The Tales of Twinkle Dingle (humorous fantasy) and the Beneath the Birch Tree saga (fairy tale re-tellings). Her work is greatly inspired by her first literary loves of fairy tales, folklore, and mythology, and her long-time interest in Settlement-era Iceland. When she is not writing or reading, she spends her time herding cats with her life-partner, sewing weird plushies, and trying to figure out how her magic wand works.

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Bud Mushroom and the Nefarious Trousers

C.C. Naughton

Bud Mushroom and the Nefarious Trousers

By C.C. Naughton

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Copyright 2016 C.C. Naughton

Cover art by Kayla Matt

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

To Char, because she loves Bud so much.

Contents

My Adventure

My Idea

My Trick

My Friends

My Queen

My Reward

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About the Author

My Adventure

Hi from Bud Mushroom!

I had an adventure! It was scary! It was amazing!

I will tell you about my adventure. I will tell you about the Trousers!

One day I was in my log. I will tell you about my log. It is an old dead log. I live in it! It has ants and beetles on the outside. Sometimes they visit me on the inside, too. I keep my things in my log. I have these things: a Snake Skin, a Snail Shell, a Pile of Leaves, a Cat Whisker, a Seashell, a Hummingbird Nest (it is my bed), and a Magic Rock. My Magic Rock has a Cord, and the Cord is stuck into a Potato. My Potato is Magic too, and it has Power. Power is human Magic! When I look at my Rock, I can see a spider web. It belongs to a spider named Worldwide. Worldwide’s Web is GINORMOUS.

This story is not about my Rock or Worldwide or a Potato. It is about my adventure. It is about Trousers! I will tell you about those things. But first I have to tell you about me.

I live in Twinkle Dingle. Humans call it Fairy Land. I am a Useful Fairy. I work for the Queen. Her name is too long for me to