Extract 28 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-eighth 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.

Repatriation

Written on March 1, 2014, this piece first appeared as the February 23 entry of 365 Days of Flash Fiction.

The raindrops hang like jewels from the leaves, each one sparkling like a diamond. They remind me of fairy lights, catching the ambient light and adding glitter to the world. They are a distraction, so I look deeper, past the raindrops, past the emerald leaves, peering into the shadows that lurk around the tree boughs and nestle in clustered twigs and newly formed fruit. Still, I see nothing.

 “I’m sorry,” I whisper, to the tiny creature riding in my shirt pocket

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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.