Fairy Short Stories

By Judy Lunsford

A collection of modern fairy tales, this book's pages are filled with singing flowers, leopard pirates, a magical hospital bed, and a motorcycle riding fairy godmother.

Collection of Fairy Short Stories
Includes: The Autumn Fairy and Shadow Tail; Moon Songs; The Moon and The Moths; Airship Pilot Waffles; The Monster Bed; The Magic Pond; My Fairy Godmother Wears Biker Boots

• Language: English
• Publisher: Judy Lunsford
• Release date: Jul 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463658703

Judy Lunsford

Born and raised in California, Judy now lives in Arizona with her husband and Giant Schnoodle. Judy writes with dyslexia and a chronic illness & is a breast cancer survivor. She writes mostly fantasy, but delves into suspense, horror, romance, and poetry. She has written books and short stories for all ages. You can find her books and short stories at your favorite online retailers.

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FAIRY SHORT

STORIES

Judy Lunsford

This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Fairy Short Stories

By Judy Lunsford

Copyright © 2019 Judy Lunsford

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For Trent,

for encouraging me to believe,

and for everyone who makes these stories possible.

Table of Contents

The Autumn Fairy and Shadow Tail

Moon Songs

The Moon and The Moths

Airship Pilot Waffles

The Monster Bed

The Magic Pond

My Fairy Godmother Wears Biker Boots

The Autumn Fairy and Shadow Tail

Once upon a time...or should it be always upon a time? For as long as there has been an always, there have been fairies.

Legend has it that a fairy is born every time a baby laughs for the first time. But what they don’t tell you is that the baby doesn’t have to be human. So the world is full of fairies. And each fairy has a special job.

This is a story about one particular fairy and her one particular job. Her name is Autumn. And her job is to oversee autumn, of course.

All summer long, Autumn readies herself for her moment. As each summer day passes, she gets more and more excited because her special day is coming.

Now Autumn works more than just one day a year. She has lots to do in preparation for the fall season. One of her many preparations is to prepare all of the fairies who are in charge of doing autumn things. There is a whole army of fairies whose sole job it is to turn the leaves different colors. It’s a big job, so they have a lot of fairies for that.

The autumn leaf fairies are always ready to go. They practice their colors every day, twice a day in preparation for autumn. You may have seen their work. It’s in the sunrise and sunset each and every day. All of the beautiful colors that streak the sky and scatter the clouds, shading them in hues of orange and red and yellow belong to the autumn leaf fairies. They take their job very seriously and practice year round.

Autumn is also in charge of the pumpkin fairies. The pumpkin fairies aren’t quite as dedicated in their work. They are slower to get started, and are just a little bit lazy. Autumn has to round them up and get them ready every year. You can smell when they start working as the cinnamon and nutmeg fairies assist Autumn in rounding up the pumpkin fairies. But once the pumpkin fairies get going, they get very excited and it’s hard to make them stop. Pumpkins of all shapes and sizes can be found once they get to work, and they are very proud of their creations.

Autumn has many other things to keep her busy year round, but September is her favorite and busiest time of year.

One day, late in August, Autumn discovered something that nearly stopped her heart. All of the autumn leaf fairies had been kidnapped!

Autumn new exactly who the culprits were.

For as long as Autumn could remember, the pesky squirrels tried everything in their power to delay autumn.

The squirrels loved summer. They had time to frolic and play. But when autumn comes, they have to prepare for winter, and the squirrels were notorious for trying to do anything they could to delay the coming of autumn and winter.

So Autumn did what she could to try to rescue the autumn leaf fairies.

Autumn asked the pumpkin fairies to help, but they hadn’t started working yet, so they were of no help. They just lounged in the pumpkin patch, drawing pictures of pumpkins with sticks  in the dirt, waiting for autumn to start.

Autumn asked the summer fairies to help, but they were tired. Their work was coming to an end, and they didn’t have much energy left to help Autumn. But they did tell Autumn where they had seen the squirrels recently.

It had been a dreary, cloudy morning. The sunrise had been dull and lifeless without the autumn leaf fairies and their artful daily practice. So Autumn went to the hill that the summer fairies had directed her to so that she could find her friends.

Pockmarked along the side of the hill were many, many squirrel holes. They led deep into the earth, where Autumn knew the squirrels had taken her friends.

Autumn crept to the main entrance near the bottom of the hill and quietly peeked into the darkness.

You’ll never find them in there, a voice said behind her.

Autumn turned to see a boy fairy, with red scruffy hair and he was dressed in furry pants and boots. He had a thick furry red tail with black stripes running the length of it that curled up his back and behind his head. He had a stick in his hand that had a single green leaf growing from a stem near the top, and he held it upright, leaning on it as he watched Autumn.

Find who? Autumn asked, suspicious of this stranger.

The fairies that the squirrels kidnapped.

How do you know about that? she asked. And who are you??

I know because I am the squirrel fairy, he said proudly. My name is Shadow Tail.

If you’re the squirrel fairy, then make them give my friends back! Autumn demanded.

No, he said simply.

Why not? she asked.

Because if the squirrels give them back, then autumn will start and all of the fun ends!

But you can’t stop autumn, it has to happen!

Says who? Shadow Tail asked.

If autumn doesn’t go as planned, your squirrels will starve, Autumn explained. The summer fairies are tired and soon they will stop working so they can sleep. Then your squirrels won’t have any food because they will have eaten it all and they won’t have anything stored to be ready for winter.

Shadow Tail’s face changed as he realized that Autumn was right. He was friends with the summer fairies, and he knew they were winding down to prepare to hibernate for the winter.

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