Welcome to this week’s installment of many micro stories, ranging in length from 100 words to 500 words.
With each story we hope to deliver a little whimsy into the lives of our readers.
FROST FAIRIES
Fairies in the frosted hedgerows, watching for lone travellers, giggle at the pranks they’ve planned.
Here comes one now, a fellow back from the tavern, a little worse for wear.
The fairies puff out handfuls of ice crystals which whirl and dance about the man, entrancing him with a scintillating swirl of light.
Out from the bushes they fly, leering at him, but he cannot see them. The fairies guide him off the lane and deep into the woods, abandoning him lost and alone, hiding in trees to watch him shiver and wander, confused, desperate to find his way home.
DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing, editor of the View From Atlantis webzine, was a finalist in the 2024 Defenestrationism.net Flash Suite Contest, and has had flash fiction published in anthologies and magazines around the world, such as Alder and Ebony (Iron Fairy Publishing), Annihilation (Black Ink), Apples, Shadows and Light (Earlyworks Press), Drabbledark II (Shacklebound Books), Journals of Horror: Found Fiction (Pleasant Storm Entertainment), and Punk (Black Hare Press), issues of Sirens Call, Tigershark, and Worlds of Possibilities, and on Cease Cows, Reflex Press, The Flash Fiction Press, Space Squid, and Trembling With Fear.
https://djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk/
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https://atlanteanpublishing.wordpress.com/
If you enjoyed this story you can find it and more in the Hawthorn & Ash 2023 anthology.
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