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    When the Shoe Won't Fit: A Fantasy Short Story
    When the Shoe Won't Fit: A Fantasy Short Story
    When the Shoe Won't Fit: A Fantasy Short Story
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    When the Shoe Won't Fit: A Fantasy Short Story

    By Margaret McGaffey Fisk

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    An unusual fairy tale for all ages.

    Just because it's always been that way doesn't make it right.

    Teased by the young fairies for her clumsiness and large feet, Tiptoe believes she's a failure as a fairy. She's confined to the nursery where only the babies can see her, and every time she leaves it, it's all Tiptoe can do to avoid damaging the fairy village.

    Then a special prince is added to her charges, and she starts to question what makes her so different.

    When the Shoe Won't Fit originally appeared in the online magazine Aurora Wolf, and its related anthology, Aurora in the Dawn in 2010.

    This is an updated version available in eBook format.

    Word Count: 5200 (Not including bonus first chapter of Secrets)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTTO Publishing
    Release dateJun 16, 2016
    ISBN9781631390210
    When the Shoe Won't Fit: A Fantasy Short Story
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    Margaret McGaffey Fisk

    Margaret McGaffey Fisk is a storyteller whose tales often cross genres and worlds to bring events and characters to life. She currently writes steampunk, romance, science fiction, and fantasy but will go wherever the story takes her. Foreign Service brat, data entry clerk, veterinary tech, editor, manager, and freelance programmer are among the roles she’s lived, giving depth to the cultures and people that form the heart of her works. As her website is titled, she offers tales to tide you over.

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      Book preview

      When the Shoe Won't Fit - Margaret McGaffey Fisk

      Just because it’s always been that way doesn’t make it right.

      ~*~

      Teased by the young fairies for her clumsiness, Tiptoe believes she’s a failure as a fairy. She’s confined to the nursery where only the babies can see her, and every time she leaves it, it’s all Tiptoe can do to avoid damaging the fairy village.

      Then a special prince is added to her charges, and she starts to question what makes her so different.

      ~*~

      When the Shoe Won’t Fit originally appeared in the online magazine Aurora Wolf, and its related anthology, Aurora in the Dawn. This is an updated version.

      Praise for the Books of

      Margaret McGaffey Fisk

      Secrets

      Through her young heroine and hero, the author breathes life into a curious, exciting and often dangerous world of steam, sail, sentient machines, loyal friendships and deeds of quiet bravery undertaken in the face of widespread fear and bigotry, to deliver a clever, entertaining and unique new take on Victorian Steampunk.

      — David Bridger, author of A Flight of Thieves (Sky Ships) —

      Shafter

      Trina’s life revolves around protecting her family and as a shafter, the lowest of Ceric society, her choices are limited to what she can steal. However, a chance at a new life aboard a colony-bound ship teaches her a new way of life and the price of unquestioned loyalty in this exciting tale, rich with cultural world building and science fiction adventure. This is a story you’ll love, with a tale you won’t want to see end!

      — Lazette Gifford, author of Glory —

      While the heroine yearns for another world, you’ll crave any universe, any tale, created by this exciting new speculative fiction author. In Shafter, McGaffey Fisk delivers an inter-planetary colony system and populates it with complex and sympathetic characters. Travel from the tunnels of Ceric to the stars beyond with a master thief and her master storyteller.

      — Valerie Comer, author of Majai’s Fury —

      When the Shoe Won’t Fit

      ~*~

      A fantasy short story

      Margaret McGaffey Fisk

      TTO Publishing

      Cover created by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

      TTO Publishing logo design by Blue Harvest Creative

      www.blueharvestcreative.com

      When the Shoe Won’t Fit

      Copyright 2010 by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

      eBook edition created 2016

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this eBook, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you did not purchase the copy you’re reading, please

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