The Faeries' Dance

I was reading from some friends and found out that my friend Tonya submitted an entry to a writing contest. About Fairies. Some of you know that I also have a blog that is all about fairies. I just couldn't pass this flash Fiction writing contest up! So I’m posting it here as my entry to The Fairy Ring Writing Contest. (You can read Tonya's entry here.)

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The moonlight filtered through the trees to my right as I walked along the well-worn path. I loved walking here at night.  This park was more natural than some of the over-cultivated parks closer to my home, and I preferred it to them. It was quieter her too.  Leaves crunched under my feet and a cool breeze lifted my hair gently. I shivered, but it wasn’t because I was cold. I just had an odd feeling settle in the pit of my stomach, like something wasn’t quite right in the air around me.

That’s when I heard the laughter. It was carried on the breeze and just barely tickled my ear with its gleeful sound. It sounded like children were playing on a distant playground, but I knew it was too late for children to be out. My steps faltered. I suddenly wondered if it was safe to be out alone tonight.

But the soft laughter continued to tickle my ears and then I saw the lights. There must have been dozens of them, in every color imaginable. They floated in the air towards me and began to swirl around me, making me almost dizzy as I tried to focus on them. The lights grew and expanded and soon I could see shapes taking form within them. In moments, I was surrounded by dozens of dancing men and women. They all had a faint glow about them and wispy glittery wings on their backs.

They were beautiful and graceful and I felt myself pulled with a wild abandon into their dance. I felt like I could dance forever. The dancing was sensual and energetic and I could feel the movements singing through my veins as if I was catching fire from the inside out. I woke on the forest floor.

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word count: 300 words

I must admit that I struggled a little with keeping my entry to 300 words. You can read my first, slightly longer draft here.

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The contest is open from now (midnight EST on 2/7/12) to midnight EST on 2/20/12.

To win, write a piece of flash fiction (300 words or less) on your (fictional or not) first-person encounter with a faery, goblin, or fantastical being of your choice. Post your entry on your blog and paste the link code into the HTML editor to be included.

1st Place: A copy of The Fairy Ring and a 10 page edit by Anna Meade.

2nd Place: A copy of The Fairy Ring and a 5 page edit by Anna Meade.

3rd Place: A copy of The Fairy Ring.

So let your imagination run wild. It can be whimsical, beautiful, emotional, creepy, mysterious or horrifying. I ask that you restrict your undead submissions to another contest (no zombies or vampires, please).

1. Diana Paz	2. February Grace	3. Felicity Lennie
4. Cara Michaels	5. Matt Lannigan	6. Damien Darby
7. Jaime	8. Paul Ramey	9. Stacy Bennett
10. Celeste	11. Bernadette Davies	12. Wendy Reid
13. J. Whitworth Hazzard	14. Erin Ashby	15. Mark Blackmore
16. L.S. Taylor	17. SJI Holliday	18. Jo-Anne Teal
19. Daniel Swensen	20. pammy	21. Steven - @ashviper
22. Bullish	23. Anna Meade	24. Tina Ramey
25. Siobhan Muir	26. Amalia T.	27. Mark Wilson
28. Dasia	29. Tonya C.	30. Kelly Mathews
31. Margaret McNulty	32. Donna McNicol	33. McKenzie
34. Sara Leggeri	35. Becca J. Campbell	36. Rebecca Fyfe
37. Angela Goff	38. Lisa Cresswell	39. Victoria Boulton
40. Brewed Bohemian	41. Lillie McFerrin	42. Tim Kane
43. Dee Solberg	44. H.L. Pauff	45. Teoppoet
46. Thomas Loy	47. Ellen Schneider	48. Cassi Haggard
49. N. Celestina White	50. Tristan J Tarwater	51. Susan Smith-Josephy
52. Angie - Write Me Happy	53. Emmie Mears	54. Kern Windwraith

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