Ooops!

The Tooth Fairy’s crossness showed on her face.

She had obviously been sent to the wrong place.

This sleeper was wrinkly, her hair silver grey!

No baby teeth here to be taken away.

She pocketed the coin she had intended to leave,

But watching the sleeper gently breathe

She decided to leave her sweet dreams instead

And sprinkled fairy dust over the bed.

AUTHOR

Linda Hibbin

Linda Hibbin is a septuagenarian, living in Essex with a domineering pooch called Poppy. Linda is a mosaic artist but needing a new challenge in 2020, joined online creative writing courses. She enjoys writing humorous stories and comical observations of herself, and people she knows, and Poppy often wriggle into Linda’s tales. She also likes to touch the reader's heart with more serious tales. Her work has been published by Dreich Mag, Potato Soup Journal, Glitterary Literary,and Writefluence and reached the finals of Wow! Women in Writing and the Wells Festival of Literature 2022.