Challenge #01486-D025: Worth a Life

“unfortunately it hurts all 3 of my feelings” - Carrie Fisher – @recklessprudence

Oh crap. She’d tripped over a Faerie nest.

Of all the authors who featured the Fair Folk in their modern writings, A. A. Milne said it best: Their bodies were so tiny that they could only process one feeling at a time. What hardly anyone remembered about Faeries is this: immortality can drive cogniscent beings insane. Milne’s traditional cause of faerie death is not what these hyperactive creatures needed.

They needed to be hurled into the sun, in her opinion. But just try talking to NASA about that. In the meantime, there were only so many ways to apologise to a hive of angry Faeries. And one of them involved rum. Which Caeri didn’t have in her pack because this was meant to be a sober hike. The other method involved bloodletting.

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25/01/2017, 12:06 with 2 notes #instant story #just add prompt #faerie tales #myths illogical #survival skills

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Challenge #01413-C318: The Otherworldly Ones

http://phantomrose96.tumblr.com/post/152590950362/airyairyquitecontrary-aprillikesthings
Humans are Fae for urban animals – @callmegallifreya

“They live in a cave,” the corvid insisted. “Caves all over the cliffs. Caves in the grasslands. They’re all so confusing that it’s difficult to find your way out again. The sky turns into a wall. But if you find a nice one, they will take you to the wall that is open and let you be free.”

“They leave food,” said the possum. “Some even give it when it’s fresh. Most leave it in the cans of plenty in the grasslands.”

“They saved my babies,” said a duck. “They are gentle and kind.”

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14/11/2016, 09:09 with 1 note #instant story #just add prompt #myths illogical #faerie tales #perspective

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Challenge #01405-C310: Friend of the Fae

There’s a reason fairy rhymes with scary – OohLookShiny

[AN: There’s a reason why I use ‘faerie’ as a spelling for them]

Now let’s be clear, faeries don’t exist. Everyone knows that they’re just old wives’ tales about dangerous places that have long since be rendered safe…

But…

Just in case…

Don’t fell a faerie tree. Don’t disturb a standing stone. Keep away from the faerie hill. Never whistle at midnight when you’re in the woods. Throw the salt over your shoulder. Share sugar for joy. Paint certain flowers on your baby’s cradle. Hang a horseshoe over your threshold.