I Know What I Saw.

So young, hope was alive but fading fast.

One night, heat still stifling at three a.m., I woke from a fitful sleep.

A fairy sat on my window sill. She smiled and I was comforted.

Mom said I must have been dreaming.

 

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40 thoughts on “I Know What I Saw.

  1. Meg

    So glad she saw a fairy before hope faded. We have to hold onto some semblance of mystery and fables and the impossible in the world. Lovely, as always, Michelle!

  2. tnkerr

    My girls discovered “flower fairies” when we lived in England and, I saw the tooth fairy when I was about 5 years old, She came to leave a quarter for my sister.
    That really dates me, huh? A quarter?

    1. michellelongo Post author

      3 am is definitely the worst. I still groan when I wake up then. It was nice that at least once something good came of it.

  3. Silverleaf

    I hope this restored your hope!
    One sunny day, my friend and I were sitting in my garden and we both watched what could only be described as a tiny white fairy as it flew between us, then disappeared. We still talk about it to this day!

  4. Suzanne

    I’m the kind of mom that asks for details (colour, wingspan, glitter factor?).

    I love the way you preface the story in that opening line. Nicely done!

    1. michellelongo Post author

      Thanks! My mom believed me about the ghost I saw because she said she saw it too. I guess since she didn’t see the fairy it didn’t happen 🙂

  5. inNateJames

    They say children are more susceptible to psychic phenomenon. I don’t know who “they” is. But I believe it, just like children have an easier time learning foreign languages.

  6. Sarah Ann

    Wonderful how you create the expectation with the line, ‘hope was alive but fading fast,’ as if in another few months she’d have been too old to see. Lovely story.

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