A True Fairy Tale A Cautionary Note When I was a young girl my Mommy told me Fairy tales. When I was older I learnt that they are not real. When I was twenty I learnt that I was wrong, but that fairies sometimes are not as nice as I always thought they were! Not all fairies have pretty wings and eat ambrosia; some have pretty wings and whips and chains, and feed you gruel just for fun! A True Fairy Tale It all began for me on a Monday morning in June, when I strolled across my ‘two acre grass lawn, ignoring the weeds.’ Down to the woods at the bottom of my garden, where I found a hole in a tree, filled with glistening dust. I made my first mistake right then, I touched the dust, and then carefully smell at it, how stupid am I. My mistake was thinking that just because it was pretty and

