calwinters's 100-word story for June 3, 2025

calwinters wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 3, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Most people think that fairies are little winged things sweet, pretty and petite with glittering wings and furtive movements flitting to and fro to and fro without a care in the world but the true fairies are more varied than that sometimes the size of humans sometimes giants sometimes smaller than a ladybird and they can pass the human-sized ones as humans themselves although if you know one if you meet one at a party and he invites you to his castle in the sewer don't go and don't give him an eyelash for luck or you'll find yourself vanished

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