Showing posts with label fairy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fairy. Show all posts

Monday, January 5, 2015

The Disaster

All About Love by Bell Hooks
A Dogs Memories...Our Lives Together
Drawing the Head and Figure
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Transfer Printing by Guy Scott
Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
Weight: 3 lbs
Method of Disposal: Natural Disaster


My beautiful wife will not let me tell you the real story as to how all of these books came to be destroyed, but let me assure you it had nothing to do with snakes.  I am just on her laptop and have limited access to pictures.  I have just as much disdain for my destroyed books as I (albeit unnecessarily) have to that serpent right now.

Since I cannot tell you the real story, I will tell you this one.  There once was an expansive and magical library of books that was dusted daily and tended to by the most gorgeous of faeries.  The fairy's name was Lorelei, and she had just moved to a new settlement with magical unicorns and fireflies that were permanently stuck in the sky.  Everything was as it should be for months and months (despite having to work long hours at a job where she was deeply under appreciated) until a dark force came, without her knowledge, into her ethereal realm in the form of several spirits.  One by one the spirits took her books.  The ones that did not perish were still damaged and Lorelei angrily had to throw them out before their allotted time ( a time when she would record their existence and leave it on the world wide web).  She did this quickly and with much remorse, leaving behind her own form of disarray and despair (her office was left quite a mess).  She had no idea how to vanquish the spirits but reinforcements would be called in by that Ribbons girl that lived down the lane (in the same house).

To be continued...

Monday, July 9, 2012

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book


Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book
1998
Weight: 2 lbs
Method of Disposal: Left in Inman Park area



On a far less serious note, I am getting rid of a Pressed Fairy Book.  What a strange little thing…
One of my dearest friend’s mom loved the smooshed fairies and had written a book about fairies herself and, somehow, that influenced me to have this book all this time.  A woman sits very still and waits for a fairy to land in her book and then she smashes it.  She writes about their fear, her excitement, her growth.  It is actually quite disturbing, but I can see how some people might find it entertaining so I hope it finds a new home with one of those folks.  No, in all honesty, the drawings of the fairies are well done and all in good fun.  It even comes with a publisher’s note about The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies, and it explains that only two fairies really suffered.  It is cute.