The Art Critic
The fairy took one look at the concrete monstrosity of a statue put up to represent Tinkerbell and blasted it to smithereens with a quick twitch of her wand.
It was bad enough humans didn't really believe in fairy kind anymore but there was no way she would tolerate such a horrible depiction of the noblest of the magical species.
So she didn't and considered it the finest piece of critical art analysis ever seen on Earth. It was just a shame she couldn't boast about it. Very few would believe in her to believe her at all. She wished she could change that and teach humans to respect their betters. She wasn't allowed to grant her own wishes. It would be chaos she was told.
She sighed. What it would've been was fun!
But then fairies weren’t supposed to indulge in
that either, or so she’d been told.
She smiled. There was a lot the authorities didn’t know despite all their magical capabilities. If folk were determined to do something, they’d find a way. It was one of the few things she understood about humanity given they shared the same trait.
And now time to clear off and leave people wondering what happened to “their” Tinkerbell.
The fairy vanished. The very sharp of hearing might have just heard a slight laugh on the breeze as she did so.
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about the author
Allison Symes, who loves reading and writing quirky fiction, is published by Chapeltown Books, CafeLit, and Bridge House Publishing.
Her flash fiction collections, Tripping The Flash Fantastic and From Light to Dark and Back Again are available in Kindle and paperback. She has been a winner of the Waterloo Arts Festival writing competition three years in a row where the brief was to write to a set theme to 1000 words maximum.
She also writes short stories and has contributed to many CafeLit anthologies over the years, her first printed story appearing in 2009. She was a regular writer for the now defunct Friday Flash Fiction and some of her stories were chosen as the Editor’s Choice for the week.
She has had flash fiction stories broadcast on Hannah Kate’s show on North Manchester FM, most recently in March 2026, and has also been interviewed by Hannah.
She has run workshops at The Writers’ Summer School, Swanwick, the London Jesuit Centre, and others. She has also spoken at groups in person and online. She was also a speaker at the Scottish Association of Writers conference where she ran a workshop and judged a competition for them.
Website: https://allisonsymescollectedworks.com/
Books: http://author.to/AllisonSymesAuthorCent.
Her Youtube channel, with book trailers and story videos, is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCiePD4p_vWp4bz2d80SJA/
With her non-fiction hat on, Allison blogs for online magazine, Chandler’s Ford Today, often on topics of interest to writers. Her weekly column can be found at http://chandlersfordtoday.co.uk/author/allison-symes/
Allison blogs for Authors Electric and More Than Writers, the blog spot for the Association of Christian Writers (ACW). She runs monthly flash fiction workshops for ACW too.
She also writes monthly for Writers’ Narrative e-magazine on a variety of topics and judges flash fiction competitions.
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