In a land not to far from earth, fairies and humans co-existed. The fairies frolicked in the fields out outside of Mewbourne. These fairies used to come out in the middle of the night and sprinkle pixy dust all over humans if they happened to catch one by themselves.
A young lady by the name of Annie happened to be walking by herself to the fair. She was passing the field outside of Mewbourne when some fairies appeared in front of her and approached her. They sprinkled pixy dust all over her causing her to instantly fall asleep.
The fairies sprinkled some more pixy dust on her causing her to shrink to their size and rise into the air and follow the fairies into the ground. They wake her with the snap of their fingers. She awoke to diamonds rings and jewelry all around her. The fairies told her to take as much as could fit into her pockets and to not tell anyone where you got it. After showing her everything, they sprinkled some more pixy dust on here causing her to go back to normal size and fall back asleep.
She woke up to her mother shaking her shoulders asking her, "Where have you been for the past five hours?"
"I must have fallen asleep because I had the weirdest dream," she replied as she got up from the ground. She felt something jingle in her pocket and realized that she had not been dreaming at all.
"What was that?" her mother asked, hearing the jingle as well.
"Oh nothing, just something I found as I was wondering these fields today," she replied, remembering that the fairies told her not to tell anyone where she got the jewelry.
She woke up to her mother shaking her shoulders asking her, "Where have you been for the past five hours?"
"I must have fallen asleep because I had the weirdest dream," she replied as she got up from the ground. She felt something jingle in her pocket and realized that she had not been dreaming at all.
"What was that?" her mother asked, hearing the jingle as well.
"Oh nothing, just something I found as I was wondering these fields today," she replied, remembering that the fairies told her not to tell anyone where she got the jewelry.
They go home and she hides the jewelry in her basket and goes to bed.
Her mother waits for her to fall asleep before she snoops around her stuff and finds the jewelry and wakes her daughter up asking, "Where did you get all of this jewelry?"
Panicking and not thinking that it would be that big of a deal to tell her mother the truth, she says "the fairies sprinkled their pixy dust all over me and took me to their home full of jewelry and they told me not to tell anyone so keep it a secret from everyone else."
Her mother puts the jewelry back and goes to bed.
She wakes up the next morning ready to go to school wearing her new jewelry to find out it was gone and a note from the fairies saying "You had one rule to follow and you broke it."
Fairy Sprinkling Pixy Dust Geograph
Author's Note: The original story portrays an old man walking along and getting tired before falling asleep. He is then taken to the fairy underground where he is given gold in his bag. He comes back to his wife who is all mad that he did not go to the fair to only be more worried when he shows her all the gold.
In my story, I changed the old man to a young lady who falls asleep to some pixy dust to find herself in the fairies ground. The story changes where her mother finds her in the field and questions what she has in her pockets. The mother then snoops around in her bedroom to find the jewelry and wonders where it all came from.
Bibliography: The Old Man and the Fairies Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Peter H. Emerson (1894).
Hey Michael,
ReplyDeleteThat was a good story! You created the setting very well! I feel like it’s hard to fully create a world in a relatively short blog post, so the vague descriptions you gave for the setting worked well in my opinion because it makes the reader envision the world themselves. The story was easy to follow and had a good ending!