Trust Me

Ah, the Fair Folk may offer ideas, but do they edit as well? I’ll have to keep that in mind when I need to trim a few words.

I’ll have to see what I can think of. At least the other fairies are warned now, never to drink milk with artificial hormones in it. :-)

Well, this story was born of several things. I was writing an article on how to generate ideas – which led me naturally to the writer’s jokes about getting them from fairies. And I know many RedBubblers are from Australia – I don’t know what the milk situation is like there, but in the US, most of the milk is produced by cows who are given synthetic hormones to force them to produce greater quantities of milk than normal. Monsanto Corp. pushed through legislation in at least one state that dairies are forbidden to label their milk as free of these hormones when they don’t use them, since current laboratory tests aren’t capable of distinguishing between milk produced by either method (thus there is supposedly no difference). So I thought about all the unexpected harmful effects such milk might cause…

On the other hand, I like your interpretation. :-) I’d never thought of that. This story could morph in all sorts of ways, couldn’t it?

Ah, but if you callously kill one of the Fair Folk just to get your idea, will they continue to help you, or will they find a way to get even? My reading on the Fair Folk suggests it isn’t wise to try to trick them. ;-)

I guess I was worried because, up to this story, the counts on the stories where it mattered appeared to match. Yes, word count is a tricky issue, isn’t it? Glad to know you check them, even if you do rely on the Evil Empire (MS) to do it. ;-)

I’m always a bit amused by the people who can’t understand where ideas come from. There are so many out there, the real problem is choosing one.

For the problem with the milk, see my reply to LisaG – one more thing to keep in mind when writing for the Web is that issues that are easily recognisable in your own country may not be to someone from a distant country.

Of course, I’m sure any respectable fairy would love a bowl of good chocolate milk – as long as it didn’t have any of those nasty synthetic hormones in it…

I didn’t kill a fairy; milk with synthetic hormones did. Be careful what you drink. ;-) And Jewels already has me thinking, wondering if he can be saved somehow.

Thanks; I like Lisa’s interpretation, too. I wish I’d thought of it myself. :-)

Thank you.

Thank you.

On the word count – one problem is that I don’t use Word. :D I have WordPerfect, although I’ve gotten away from using that so much, RoughDraft, Liquid Story Binder XE, yWriter, DarkRoom, Q10, AngelWriter… Mostly I use RoughDraft and LSB.

Vegans don’t drink milk at all… What killed the poor trusting fairy wasn’t milk, it was the synthetic hormones in the milk.

It seems a lot of people want me to find a way to bring him back, or at least found his end distressing (well, I didn’t enjoy writing that part, but that was where the story led).

Thanks. As to what they’re putting in your creamer, I don’t think I’d dare guess. _shudder

Thank you! Coming from someone as familiar with lovely inspiration as you are :-) that is quite a compliment.

Oh, how I wish I could claim that with a straight face. ;-)

I believe that would provoke instant and all out war between the Fair Folk and mankind. ;-D

Some fairies are also known as “Fair Folk”, at least in some traditions. Of course, they have so many names it is hard to keep up.

No, it isn’t a dream, but I’m working on a way to save him anyway. Jewels, Sabbath, now you, how can I resist your combined will? ;-)