Extract 25 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 twenty-fifth 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.

In Search of Pixies

Started on February 8, 2014, and finished on  September 6, 2014, this piece first appeared as the 27 June entry of 365 Days of Flash Fiction, and returns us, once again, to the world of pixie dust and unicorns.

 

The pixies rebelled early on Sunday morning, breaking out of their cages and burning the warehouse to the ground. We did not arrive in time to save them. We gathered no evidence against their captors and couldn’t find the pixies in order to offer repatriation. The little beggars had disappeared into the surrounding industrial park, leaving us no clue as to where they’d gone.

Guess who got assigned with finding them? 

I spent a week going door to door. Sometimes, it was even the front door… and sometimes I even remembered to knock. I found one bootleg still, three sweat shops where illegal immigrants were being used as sex slaves and seamstresses, the remains of a heroin smuggling operation, and six runaways, four of which I managed to convince to go home, but I didn’t find the pixies. It was as though they’d vanished from the face of the earth.

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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.