Kindle Edition Amazon Amazon Amazon Barnes & Noble Category:  Fantasy Publisher: Self-published ISBN-10:  B009DNXCSW Type: Fiction Pages: 23 Copyright: September 18, 2012 Lucy is always staring at the wall. She says she can see Fairyland, and then one day she walks through the wall..... Lucy likes to stare at the wall. Her mother thinks she is suffering from petit mal but Granny McCurdle says, “ Och, she's away wi' the fairies again.” Nobody takes this literally until Lucy disappears. Her sister knows where she's gone, but who would believe her? Can she really have gone to Fairyland? Excerpt “Lucy!” June stopped dead in the bedroom doorway. Lucy was sitting staring at the wall. Again. She did it all the time these days. Mum said she was suffering from some sort of condition that made her go into a trance. It sounded like someone's name – Betty Moll? – something like that. But Granny McCurdle said, “Och, she's away wi' the fairies again.” And that sounded so much nicer. Even so, she didn't want to wake her up. You weren't supposed to wake people up if they were sleepwalking. Maybe it was the same with a trance. She didn't know what happened to them. Did they die? Or go mad? She just didn't want to take the chance. So she moved across the room very quietly and sat beside her sister on the bed. There was a tiny tear in the wallpaper just opposite where Lucy was sitting. Lucy said that was what she had to concentrate on to make the trance come. Only she didn't call it a trance. She said she went to look at Fairyland. June leant forward and stared at the tear in the paper. It was that kind of lumpy paper called Anna something – Anna Galloper? The wall remained blank and ordinary. June sat back a bit and refocussed. And there was something – just the slightest suggestion of green - a pale shifting of green shadows, a bit like a film being projected onto a screen. Fascinated, she concentrated harder. Then, just as the shadows started to coalesce into a picture, the cat, Mitzy, shot across the room and ran straight into the wall. Straight into the middle of what had become a picture of a forest. And she ran into the shadows under the trees and disappeared behind a trunk. June gasped with shock. “Mitzy!” Lucy stood up and ran after the cat, straight through - or was it into - the wall. But the wall wasn't there anymore. A real live forest was standing beyond the hole where the wall was supposed to be. Shaking, June stood up, her hands outstretched like a blind man, feeling in front of her for where the wall used to be. Then with an audible pop! the wall reappeared, just at the ends of her fingers. She felt it smack against them as it came back. “Whoo!” June sat down again suddenly and stared at the wall. It was white and blank and innocent again. She remained staring at the wall for a long time.

Jenny pulls me in once again...and I don't want to leave!
Delightful! What a wonderful adventure, lyrical and dangerous all at once... Loved every word!

Jenny has a distinctive gift for considering the "what-if" in every day situations. When I was a child, I would have surely loved to have found an entrance to the fairy realm, but if I did, what might have happened?

I loved this story so much, I had to read it twice in a row. It's exactly what a fairy story should be: mystery, adventure, loss, hope, and magic.

Powerful short story
Tapping into many of our deepest fears and told wonderfully from the point of view of a child, this is a powerful short story. Jenny Twist has the gift of making the everyday spooky.

Captivated...,
Away With the Fairies has it all, intrigue; magic, and smooth story-telling.
A treat that shouldn't be missed, especially at this affordable price. I'm reading it again tonight, this time to my son. Yes, adults and children can enjoy this gem.
This book absolutely captivated me.