Extract 17 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 seventeenth 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.

Pixies and the Aussie Summer

Written on January 18, 2014, this piece first appeared as the January 17 entry of 365 Days of Poetry, and was inspired by the incredibly hot weather we were having, and the consideration that pixies come from temperate lands and a different climate.

The pixies melt

in the forty-degree heat,

screaming,

not meant for summers here.

 

 

I shelter them,

bringing them inside the house,

 

crying, 

 

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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.