My Short Short Story for the Day

Once upon a time there was a little shark named Charlie and he lived in the great big ocean. He was swimming around looking for some tasty fish to eat when a magical fairy appeared. The fairy asked if he wanted to be a fairy for the day. He didn’t hesitate.

“Yes.” He said. Poof!

She handed him a wand. “Have fun! I’ll be back tomorrow. Same time. Same place.”

Charlie couldn't believe it. He was a real fairy. Wings and all. He waved his magic wand and lots of tasty fish appeared. “Wow! It's true. It's really really true!”

So Charlie decided to test out his brand new wings. He wiggled around and was about to flap his fins when he realized, his fins were gone. He now had little fairy feet and hands and sparkly wings on his back.

“Oh, boy!” Charlie smiled then kicked his feet and flew right out of the water.

He kept flying up, up, up into the air. As he was flying around in the air doing loop de loops he noticed there was a tiny little whale way down in the ocean looking up at him. He flew back down towards the whale and as he got closer he realized the whale wasn't so tiny after all. In fact he was quite large. Charlie slowed down and fluttered in the air just above the whale's eye.

“Who are you?” The whale asked.

“Why, I'm Charlie the shark.” Charlie said proudly.

“You don't look like a shark.” The whale replied.

“Oh, right.” Charlie said. “I'm actually a fairy today.”

“A fairy?” The whale didn't believe him.

“Yes, a real live fairy.” Charlie said spinning around to show off his wings. “And I can grant wishes, too. Is there anything you want?”

“Um? I wouldn't mind some yummy plankton.” Said the whale.

“No problem.” With a flick of his wand Charlie made a whole bunch of plankton appear.

The whale gobbled them all up and as he swam away he said. “Thank you!”

Charlie thought he made a very good fairy. And for that whole day, he was indeed a very good fairy.