Extract 15 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 fifteenth 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.

The Mermaids Take the City

I started this piece on January 15, 2014, for 365 Days of Flash Fiction where it first appeared, and then forgot completely about it. I finished it on January 23, 2014. It is more of the story about Appleton and the starfish trade, mentioned in ‘Appleton’s Fate’ on December 19, 2014.

 The mermaids sang of their anger and revenge, an eerie, beautiful tune that drew the city to the docks. I wanted to know who had wired them into such a large sound system. Everyone was called, and everyone came. In their rage, the mermaids were indiscriminate.

I was okay. I had an earbud in to let me communicate with the rest of my squad, and sound blockers to negate the mermaids’ song. The rest of the squad had done the same. We’d read Appleton’s note. Now, we had to do something or we were going to have bodies clogging up the bay—the mermaids were serious about their starfish....

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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.