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A strange girl Amanda Craig, odd and distracted and
wild eyed with stories of friends she had made
who lived in the woods and whenever she could
she would run off to play with throughout all the day

And weep not my child, for who
One night's dance, a life will see you through

A strange girl Amanda, that mark on her hand
and when taunted she'd just glide oblivious by
But some had decided in scorn and despisement
her torment would taste good and thus by and by

The bullies they badgered and bothered and beat her
til one Monday when they no longer went near
They came to school with an odd look of strange terror
avoided her, trembled, even cried a few tears

And weep not my child, for who
One night's dance, a life will see you through

By mid teens Amanda was absent so often
some say she ran naked through forests at night
Her parents would shrug and exchange glances knowing
the woods were her mate and the fairies her guides

Adults now, those bullies invoked the authorities
"for her own good we must put her away"
It took time to capture but in the asylum
for 60 years they threw Amanda Craig

And weep not my child, for who
One night's dance, a life will see you through

At 85 in an old home sat Amanda
and also those bullies who put her away
Old now they all watch TV in the Commons
until the warm night when the fairies they came

Weep not my child for Amanda
they Fae came the night 'fore she died for this one last soiree
Weep not my child for the bullies
for out of the window they climbed and danced with the Fae

And though on that night they all died from exhaustion
they begged her forgiveness with tears in their eyes
They all agreed it was the finest, the greatest
the most sublime night they had had in their lives

and weep not my child, for who
One night's dance, a life will see you through

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from Fairy Tales for Homeless Faeries, released October 15, 2013

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Cama’s attempt to commune with higher beings failed; she only found Decadent Dottie. Together they roamed, indulging in dangerous forms of psycho-neural self-exploration which Cama hoped would present the key to her people’s further evolution. It only led to her destroying her people so that one of their pets could evolve. She sat in her former civilization's rubble and listened to Paul Shapera. ... more

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