Extract 14 from This Month's New Release: Pixie Dust Dreaming (C.M.'s Collections #7)

 Pixies, trolls and urban policing, things got interesting when the Otherworld renewed its connection to ours. A new suite of crimes sprang into existence overnight…and a new breed of officer had to be found to combat them. This volume brings together all the stories, so far published, of the officers in the Paranormal Operations Squad…and the world in which they strive to maintain the peace.

Here's an extract from the fourteenth entry in this month's release of Pixie Dust Dreaming, the 7th collection in my Collections series, which released on the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/mY6xvP.

Hot Iron Pixies

Written on January 11, 2014, this piece first appeared as the January 10 entry of 365 Days of Flash Fiction, and explores more of the anomalies to be found in the pixie-dust world.

Life as a pixie can be hard. Some never left the world, but most returned. They found the old forests mostly gone, the glades and thickets in which they’d dwelt, vanished, diminished or depleted—usually uninhabitable.

Some returned to the Otherworld straight away. Some made do as best they could. These pixies evolved, and became other than what they were, but the quality of their dust remained the same—albeit with some unexpected properties. The wisest of the dust runners did much to look after these pixie ‘crops’, harvesting with care and testing before selling the good stuff for a premium. I hated them.

 

When the runners discovered a nest of pixies dwelling in an iron smelter, they thought they were onto something special...

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The rest of this entry can be found in the Pixie Dust Dreaming collection.

 

Cover art is by Jake at JCaleb Design, and links to Pixie Dust Dreaming can be found on Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/mY6xvP.