One of my Shortbread Short Stories was called Job Satisfaction and I share this here now. Hope you like it.
JOB SATISFACTION
Thud!
The fairy returned to what she’d wrongly sworn was an open window.
Damn! Every bloody window was shut. Her scowl curdled the street’s milk. She fired a spell at the letterbox to keep it open. Many fairies narrowly escaped being sliced in half by a clanging letterbox but nobody cheated her of an overdue incisor yet alone a snoring bully…
Outside her client’s bedroom, the fairy rummaged through her pockets. When humans made her work harder than necessary, she returned the compliment. The fairy grinned at her pliers. There were times she really loved her job.
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