Seahorses Fairy

When I was a child, grandma would tell wonderful tales about fairies living in the woods. Grandma is now 91-years-old, and unable to walk but a few feet before needing to rest. We decided to move grandma to a cottage in the woods where she could enjoy nature. I visited grandma daily, cooking for her, helping her to dress, and tending to her primrose garden. She liked to sit on the porch, enjoying the warm sunlight and cook breeze, while surrounded by nature. Now and then, she would point to something in the air, stating she saw some fairies pass by. I thought she must have seen a butterfly, dragon fly, or some other bug.

There were strange incidents that occurred such as freshly picked primroses appearing in her vase. I knew that she was incapable of picking them. Grandma would say that the fairies put them in the vase. One morning, grandma was dressed in her favorite white dress , waiting for me to make breakfast. After breakfast, I left her on the porch and proceeded inside to do some cleaning. When I checked on her, she was gone! She was nowhere to found. A search party went out looking for her but to no avail.

A week later, while I was working on her primrose garden, I looked up and saw my grandma as a fairy, hovering in the air with her wings and , wearing her white dress. There were several tiny flower faeries with her as well. These were the fairies that grandma talked about in her fairytales. She gave me a warm smile, and then vanished.

 

There was an old woman who lived in a cottage, and moved very slowly. She kept a beautiful primrose garden and always left several buckets of water there. The little primrose fairies would arrive in crowds to drink from the bucket or wash their faces.  Afterwards, they would play and dance alongside the little woman, as she clapped and danced hands to the beat. The old woman danced like she was in her twenties.