Through The Fairy Gate
A Picture Prompted Microfiction
Another child was gone
The parents thought she was sleeping but in the morning the cot was empty
They were distraught
This was the third baby girl that had disappeared from the village in the last month.
The whole village searched, the gardens the fields and the woods, but there were no signs of the babes
The parents of the babes still here began sitting with their children all night long to make sure they were safe.
Maria got up to get some gripe water for her daughter who was crying, she was away for thirty seconds and when she came back her daughter was gone, she ran out and saw a character in a pointed hat carrying her baby away she screamed, and hoped she would wake the village.
Two men came out to join the chase, but as the baby thief entered the woods a door appeared, and the thief and baby disappeared through it and the door disappeared in a flash of smoking light.
Maria screamed again and burst into tears as she stood where the door had been.
One of the men said:
"I didn't believe it, but I had heard tales that the fairies stole baby girls to bring up as their own, It looks like it's true Maria, your daughter has been taken by the fairies, I am so sorry"
He hugged Maria and she cried her heart out as he held her close, trying to comfort her, knowing that her daughter was gone from this world forever.
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Music is "Babes In The Wood" by The Steve Miller Band
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The Flare
They had a tent and some supplies but were stuck on the ice. It was flat as far as the horizon in every direction. The sky was cloud-covered and they were not sure if it was day or night, it was a permanent twilight that they were caught in. They were cold and tired and lost.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred9 months ago in Fiction
Comments (12)
I always found the old stories of changlings fascinating and your story reminds me of them. An awesome micro :)
Great work! I would love a follow-up for this! How do the fairies raise her?
Awesome fairy story!
If you're interested, that image is from the end of Prince Caspian 😁
This could be a book in the making, Mike!
See, my concept is, if you don't want anything to happen to your kids, then don't have kids, lol! I would love to be that baby thief! 🤣🤣🤣
What an opening scene for a larger story I’d love to read about how Maria dedicates her life to getting her daughter back
Nasty. I am going to enjoy this microfiction challenge. I will appeal to my dark side. Great story, Mike!
Them's not nice fairies! Them's selfish & cruel.
Great story! To bad they didn’t have a GPS she could have glued it to the fairy and then tracked it down!
Great one. Liked it
This was very good.