I had never written anything short before so I decided to dive in and do a 500-word contest based on a prompt. I finished it, I was so excited to submit, and then it turns out the contest is only twice a year and they didn’t update the website! So here it is, my first piece of flash fiction, which I also published it on Wattpad if you’d like to comment on it there.

Of the many things Marie’s mother taught her, making houses for fairies was her favorite.

Yes, she knew how to tell how fa...