The Happy Tooth Fairy

Once upon a time in the really good old days the tooth fairy fooled tiny tots into thinking she was the one who left the pennies, and as inflation increased, the nickels, the dimes, the quarters and then even a dollar(!) under their pillows in exchange for their fallen out teeth. This was an easy job since the children’s own parents came up with the coins, made the argument and then let her take all the credit.

However, the day came – as inevitably it would – when children stopped believing (and/or parents stopped telling) tales that a tooth fairy might really want their teeth so she began to do odd jobs on the side. There were many opportunities, but she had to pretend to be someone (or something) other than who (or what) she really was which annoyed her.

But work is work and you have to do what you have to do which now included gigs where she played the last universal common ancestor, the big bang, deep dark matter, the mysterious multiverse or God knows what nonsense next. She had no clue what any of this stuff was, but as long as the children knew, since children normally knew quite well what they were told to know, she was as happy as any tooth fairy could be, so happy, in fact, that she decided she might as well – whether she deserved it or not and most likely she didn’t – live happily ever after.

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Denise offers the prompt word “stop” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

22 thoughts on “The Happy Tooth Fairy”

  2. always fascinating the ‘children’s story’ especially as their evolution through history (the stories, not the children…lol… wait. maybe the children too)

    Good Six

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  6. In the Spanish-speaking world the tooth fairy equivalent is a mouse called Ratoncito Pérez. 🐭 Just a little bit of info on the subject. Two of my grandchildren, who have a British father and a Colombian mother, double-dip with their teeth: money from each — the fairy and the mouse.

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  10. I think children need stories and magic as stepping stones to less-sparkly adulthood. That being said, a fae bone collector that comes at night and slips its hand/claw under a child’s pillow is pretty Goth. Yikes!

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