Extract 6 from This Month's 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 sixth 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 in the Snow

Written on December 21, 2013, this piece first appeared in the December 16 entry of 365 Days of Flash Fiction, and is set in the world of pixie dust smuggling.

 The pixies live under the snow in winter. They hibernate. This makes them harder to find, but easier to catch. Pixies sleep like the dead. Of course, they fight like the undead, never truly waking from the winter hibernation, but defending themselves in their dreams. I never want to be caught in a pixie’s dream, if that’s the way they have to fight.

In winter, the smugglers search the forests for sleeping pixies, and try not to intrude into their dreams, gathering them up in soft little Santa sacks and putting them in cold rooms to maintain the illusion. Easy pickings. Most of their victims never wake.

...

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.