Written for the Six Sentence Story challenge hosted by Girlie on the Edge. This is a tale of a rebellious little fairy who’s too cool for school. Words and art by Ford Waight.
The Fairy of the Lost Jewelry
“Little one (said the professor), your life is a mess, you have scant respect and nay prospect, when all ye do is flit about gathering jewels in your jewel-catching net!”
“What care have I (she said) of your orderly old rules, your customs and functions and moldy fey school?”
“What care have I (she said) for joining my little sisters and brothers in flight, to conjure magik and sprinkle fairy-dust o’er the Walkaloid* plight?”
“Let the Walkaloids rot (she said)… let them stew in their self-inflicted misery and lot, and leave me be to gather their jewels and trinkety-whatnot!”
“Why, (the professor said), ye be nought but a thief and rapscallion; for some o’ those Walkaloids try their best to be kind to Nature and respect the laws of old, and what use have ye of their silver and gold?”
No care did she have, aye – it was plain to see, as she danced before her professors in the school assembly, and she sang to them (so she sang, so she sang): “My life is no mess, for I wear my red dress, and I shake my wings at rings and bling and all things that glimmer and shimmer and shine… why, listen to me… if I had the damn mind… I would pluck the moon and stars right from under the sky!”
*Walkaloid – fairy language for a human.
The Atomic Mage 
Fantastically done, Ford! I loved how musical the fairy speach sounded
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Many thanks, Nicole. I think I intended the piece to be much darker, but it ended up quite musical in the end. Good you noted that 😊
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I felt the musical rhythm of the story too. 🙂
Live jolly and joyful always at ease
Mirthful moments try ever to seize
Travel the world on a lighthearted breeze
Only yourself do you need to please
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Glad you felt it too, Ladysighs!
Ah, your verse is a perfect chorus to my little fairy song 😊
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My poem reminded me of a song/tune. I recorded it. (bad habit) Here is the link to JollyandJoyful if you are interested …. or just curious. 😉
https://pcloscloud.com/index.php/s/bY4TE9NDasMP6je
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Interested and curious, both. Just listened. What a pretty little ditty. ‘Only yourself you need to please’ is a sweet line. Bit of a folk/hymn vibe there with some gorgeous piano. Bravo! 😊
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I wish it were I playing the piano. 😦
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Ah, I would love to play the piano too. I can play the drums luckily! 🥁🥁
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Of course we don’t know if you really can play the drums unless we hear you! 😦 So I will be posting a picture/poem/sound of your talent very soon! 🙂
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Cool! Well, I’ll look forward to that! 😀
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I like this very much…sassy fairy who dances & sings. Kicks up her heels, takes her gin neat…the art suggests to me she’s a flapper.
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Hiya Liz. Too true she’s a flapper, and all how you imagine! The artwork is from a collage/acrylic paint series I made, and many of the ‘fairies’ were flappers, so I was happily spoiled for choice for an image 😊
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A bounty of fairies!
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A nice little song towards the end..a talented student.
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Thank you Cassa. Glad you liked her song.
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Hi Mage, fantastical Fae(?) fable! Do you however, do Haiku verses as this Six Sentence Story definitely had a rhythm to it as Nicole and Ladysighs mention. Thanks for sharing (even if the little One doesn’t😁)
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Hi FT. Glad you enjoyed. No, I’ve tried writing Haiku before but find the form too limiting, and it all ends up a bit like a shopping list – which says more about the limits of my skills as a writer than it does about the tradition of Haiku.
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Phenomenal Six sentences sprinkled with stardust!
Artwork…impressive!
You’re running on full creative steam, Ford…and I’m happy to see that.
(Psst, don’t forget to link, eh?😉)
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Thanks Nick! Good to be back writing again 😀 The artwork is part of a collage/acrylic paint series I made some years back. A good fit for the prompt luckily!
Yikes – completely forgot to link my Six to InLinkz!! Done now. Thanks for the headsup, I’m such a klutz at times 🙃🤪😵😀
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Nice poem at the end: “My life is no mess, for I wear my red dress”.
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Thanks Frank.
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She’s the live wire every good teacher wants to point into a good direction, and the not-so-good just want to pass on to the next grade.
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Thanks Mimi. That’s a really good observation you make looking at her from the perspective of her professors.
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funny thing about (some) Sixes, how they can trigger a common response among Readers.
I had ‘Kid Charlamagne’ on as I read it the first time. If you know the song the lyrics are very much telling a quite involved story. And, our challenge here to overcome the limitations of our form, just made a connection in my mind between Six and song.
Then I read the others and heard the same sense of music in the wordage.
plus I liked the parenthetical dialogue tags… besides being economical, they, somehow add to the ‘voice’ of the tale.
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Thanks Clark. So glad you liked the parenthetical dialogue tags I added. They worked a treat as an extra ‘voice’ as you say.
Indeed, if the entire piece was a musical jam, those parts might well be a sax sprinkled across the piano or guitar parts of the dialogue…
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She’s a very materialistic fey creature, perhaps she has more in common with the Walkaloids than she thinks.
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Thanks Len. You might be right!
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She’ll go far even if it is in the opposite direction to the others. I’ve written quite a few stories about Fairies and I can think of one or two of them that would get on really well with her!
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Thanks Keith. Sounds like she’ll be in good company then!
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