Fairies Gotta Eat
by Stephen Herczeg
I found them at the bottom of the garden. Sparkling. Beautiful. Little winged people. They looked hungry, so I left a table covered with treats on the lawn.
Mummy and I went out. Daddy did the mowing.
As the garage door went up, Mummy started screaming.
There was the table. There were the treats.
There was Daddy.
Lying on the garage floor in a pool of blood. His face was gone. Just a staring skull. They’d gobbled it all up.
I warned him before we left. I did. I told him.
“Please don’t move the treats. The fairies gotta eat.”
Stephen Herczeg
Stephen is an IT geek based in Canberra, Australia. He has been writing for over twenty years and has completed a couple of dodgy novels, sixteen feature-length screenplays, and numerous short stories and scripts.
His horror work has been featured in numerous anthologies from Hunter Anthologies, Things In the Well Press, Dragon Soul Press, Blood Song Books, Monnath Books, and Black Hare Press. He has also had numerous Sherlock Holmes stories published through the Belanger Books and MX Publishing—Sherlock Holmes anthologies.
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