Just because it’s always been that way doesn’t make it right.
Teased by the young fairies for her clumsiness and large feet, Tiptoe believes she's a failure as a fairy. She's confined to the creche where only the babies can see her, and every time she leaves it, it's all Tiptoe can do to avoid damaging the fairy village.
Then a human prince is added to her charges, and she starts to wonder if her differences are more than just flaws. In helping an innocent baby, a new world is opened to her.
When the Shoe Won't Fit originally appeared in the online magazine, Aurora Wolf, and the related anthology, Aurora in the Dawn.
This is an updated version available in eBook format.
Margaret McGaffey Fisk is a storyteller whose tales often cross genres and worlds to bring events and characters to life. She currently writes science fiction, steampunk, fantasy, and romance, but will go wherever the story takes her. Foreign Service brat, data entry clerk, veterinary tech, editor, manager, and freelancer are among the roles she’s lived, giving depth to the cultures and people that form the heart of her works. As her website is titled, she offers tales to tide you over.