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Kelli, The Grimehouse Fairy

from Fairy Tales for Homeless Faeries by Paul Shapera

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Every year the fairy Kelli would lay silver petals onto the floor of the basement, near the furnace, deep in the Grimehouse.

In years past, when the Grimehouse was just a pleasant field her lover had died there. His wounds were just too grave and as she cradled him and wept he told her to keep vigil and swore he would return to to her one day on this very spot if she would just wait.

So wait she did. She built herself a mound and settled in.

They said that field was haunted and that anyone who tried
to dare and build a thing upon it met ill fate in all due time
Finally a factory of black steel, men and fire
was erected on that spot and roared its smoke into the sky

Workers sweated, died there and some say that if you drop
and ageless girl with wings appears with water, grace and song
One day a young new hire full of pamphlets, full of blaze
talked of unions, revolutions, workers' rights and strikes and pay

Rise up now oh Workers we unite upon this land
the toil of our hands, as comrades we stand]
Rise up now oh Workers side by side we all shall rise
Our dear Union's might will triumph this night

The bosses killed the young man but his books just disappeared
It was Kelli and she read them, every word and shed a tear
After that the men swore when the ageless girl showed up
that now her fist was in the air, she spoke of workers rising up

The Grimehouse Revolution, what a sight it was to see
the bosses hired an army to bring the Workers to their knees
They say it was like magic, like the factory came alive
fought alongside with the Workers and turned the war's fierce tide

Rise up now oh Workers we unite upon this land
the toil of our hands, as comrades we stand]
Rise up now oh Workers side by side we all shall rise
Our dear Union's might will triumph this night

The Factory of the Proletariat lasted decades, but one day plans were made to dismantle it and replace it with a more modern update. After this, it was as if something worked against them. Strange and horrific events began occurring and within a few years the factory was abandoned.

The Grimehouse say untouched for many years until it became a makeshift and secret home for runaway and abandoned children, all of whom swore ther were watched over and protected by an ageless girl with wings.

Some say the fairy Kelli waits in the Grimehouse for her long lost lover to return to her, but this is not true. He did return to her, reincarnated years ago.

He is the Grimehouse itself.

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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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