I am Dr. Amelie Newman, Professor of Elven Studies, and I hate when one of my students plays a prank on me. When oen of them calls and pretends to be the President of the United States, that's definitely over the line.
And then several Men-in-Black types show up in my office. That's who they send when you hang up on the president. She needed me to travel to one of the fae worlds to negotiate a treaty. I'm a college professor, not a diplomat, but the fae asked for me.
But not is all as it seems, and my situation grows dire.
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Author's Note: this was supposed to be a short story for a collection of horror stories I'm working on. Like so many ideas I think are shorts, there turned out to be more story than I expected, and the book didn't remain horror. But I kept the elements that originally made me feel it belonged in a collection of short horror stories.
Genre: Fantasy
And then several Men-in-Black types show up in my office. That's who they send when you hang up on the president. She needed me to travel to one of the fae worlds to negotiate a treaty. I'm a college professor, not a diplomat, but the fae asked for me.
But not is all as it seems, and my situation grows dire.
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Author's Note: this was supposed to be a short story for a collection of horror stories I'm working on. Like so many ideas I think are shorts, there turned out to be more story than I expected, and the book didn't remain horror. But I kept the elements that originally made me feel it belonged in a collection of short horror stories.
Genre: Fantasy
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