Just a Smidgen of Magic

By Charlotte Henley Babb

Five flash fiction stories are told from the edge of the realm of magic--enchanted moments, bitter realizations, answering the call, and returning with the elixir. Even in the mundane world, magic is only a moment away from manifestation, as each of these characters learns, sometimes to their sorrow. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charlotte Henley Babb
• Release date: May 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463445617

Charlotte Henley Babb

Upstate South Carolina is a great place to live with the fae among the ferns and sassafras in the red clay, and Charlotte Babb listens as they spin their yarns in her ears and her hair. It's only the mundane who can't see the castles in the air, but think of them only as dust bunnies and cobwebs.  Visit her at http://charlottehenleybabb.com

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Just a Smidgen of Magic

By

Charlotte Henley Babb

Other books by Charlotte Henley Babb

Set in the Real World

Walking Off Heaven's Shore

In the Still Midwinter

Maven Fairy Godmother Series

Maven Fairy Godmother: Through the Veil

Maven's Fractured Fairy Tales

PumpkinEater

Adventures of Silicon Jones  (mature audiences only)

A Steampunk Adventure

20 Hours to Charles Town

Copyright © 2014  by Charlotte Henley Babb

All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Author except for brief passages cited in a review.

ISBN-13: 9780463445617

Edition: July 2018

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

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Dedication

Thanks for Listening Again and Again

Bruce Cannon

Donna Hammett

Misty Massey

Jeff Mullen

Holly McClure

Roger Stevens

Patti Lee Thomas

Rachel White

Christopher Wilkerson

Table of Contents

Spider's Thread

Artifacts

The Croning

Not Even One Wish

Taffy's Tale

Zen of Cool

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About the Author

Other Work by Charlotte Henley Babb

Excerpt of Maven Fairy Godmother

Free Short Story: Red Stilettos

Spider's Thread

She hangs, head down, trusting her spinnerets to make her thread and support her to the ledge of the window for her web.

She trusts head to go where butt takes her. Following gravity, then defying it; that’s Ariadne’s magic. She knows when to make it sticky and where it is safe to stand.

I seek the moonlight path on water between canine indulgence and crabby obedience. How shall I build my web to catch what feeds me? How shall I know where to make it sticky and when to stand in the center and wait?

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