The Good Neighbors

[jana_denardo]

The People of Peace, the Sidhe, the Faerie, whatever you want to call them, I have loved them forever. Some of my very first stories were about elves (or vampires). They were never very popular. In college, I started a story about Tam Lin (since I loved that ballad) but my professors and my fellow students talked me out of it.

That was in the 1980's. In the 2000's I started seeing Tam Lin stories and now faeries in general all over the place. If I could go back to the 1980's one of the things I would do is not let people talk me out my story ideas (I had psychic detectives, vampirism as disease instead of truly being undead, and I had the fae and was told repeatedly the ideas were dumb and no one would want them. Yeah, right.)

I recently wrote a story for an anthology with my oldest Elfin creation (it wasn't picked and I DO need to sit down, reedit that and try elsewhere) And I was reminded just how much I liked using the fae.

I had thought about making the one character in the Scar story a vampire when I first wrote the ficlet but now I'm thinking that wouldn't be that exciting. He could however be one of the fae. Now that would interest me a lot. Scottish or Irish versions. hmm...

granted I have no real plot for the dumb thing