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    The Tale of Aynil the Traveler
    The Tale of Aynil the Traveler
    The Tale of Aynil the Traveler
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    The Tale of Aynil the Traveler

    By Paul Vincent Rodriguez

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    Aynil (Eye-nil) is a fairy charged with leaving his colony to experience the world and, eventually, return home and share those experiences with his colony. Midwest Book Review wrote: “An intriguing perspective of fantasy and reality, ‘The Tale of Aynil the Traveler’ is a remarkable and fun read that shouldn’t be overlooked by fans of fairies and fantasy in general.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Vincent Rodriguez
    Release dateOct 21, 2010
    ISBN9780984328116
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      Due to copy and paste, formatting has been lost.I found The Tales of Anyil the Traveler to be a quick and charming MG novel. It was filled with magic and action and adventure, and it also had a healthy dose of morals. (And the moral of the story is? Lots.) I slipped into this story with the ease of a much younger person-- one who's of the age for MG's.The introduction was absolutely fabulous. It immediately sets the feel for the story, and it adds a lot of wonder to the reading. Authors should believe what they write, you know? It makes the entire experience better, I think. Anyil himself wasn't a OMAHGERD AWESOME character, but I enjoyed his narration, along with all of his adventures as a traveler.For such a short book, this really covers a long time period. Think years. Crazy, right? Also, it has an ever-changing cast of characters! As many times as new characters came and old characters went, I never felt confused at all. I had a good grasp at all times, which is new for me. YAY for new experiences!!The dialog is simple and easy to follow, which I think is important-- but there were a few punctuation errors. Nothing big, but I just felt I'd mention it.All in all, I enjoyed Anyil, and MG is definitely a genre that I'll be looking more into soon.

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    The Tale of Aynil the Traveler - Paul Vincent Rodriguez

    TALES OF FAIRIES

    The Tale of Aynil the Traveler

    by

    Paul Vincent Rodriguez

    Published by Renaissance Peak, LLC at Smashwords

    Copyright 2008 by Paul Rodriguez

    This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. Any person claiming otherwise is just plain silly.

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    This book is available in print at most online retailers.

    Cover Design by Deborah Miller

    through the light and the night and the dust in the air

    through the smiles and tears and hope and despair

    fly the magicians and storytellers on the wing as they must

    that are the fairy and the traveler inside each of us

    Special Thanks to:

    My family and friends who also believe.

    My children who inspire me every day.

    Joshua Bixler and Celestino Rodriguez who had to leave us so that we might learn.

    The fairies who trusted me with their stories.

    INTRODUCTION

    The Tale of the Tales of Fairies

    It was late summer 2006 when I happened on a very rare occurrence. It was a fairy demotion. I watched as Qwendaline dropped her wings, bowed her head and grew from eighteen inches tall to almost six feet. She was now a human. Needless to say I was not supposed to see this but there I was among one hundred or so fairies of all types who now had to figure out what to do with me.

    After overcoming the shock and fear of a human wandering in on their ceremony, they accepted me as a friend. Fairies are a very spiritual group. They believe that everything happens for a reason and that I must have a special purpose to have shown up during such a rare event. When they discovered I was a writer, they began telling me their stories.

    Some told their stories reluctantly while others never seemed to stop talking. Every story was unique and carried a great message. Some of these stories helped me through difficult times in my own life. The story telling went on for months. About a year and a half after I met the fairies, I arrived at the clearing to find the entire group waiting for me. It was not another demotion. I stood nervously as the entire group fluttered up to my eye level and Qwendaline’s mother, Grace, approached.

    You must go do your job now, she said softly.

    Am I no longer welcome here? I asked.

    You are always welcome. But you have a job to do. The stories we have shared were not only for you. It is time to share them with others.

    These are the Tales of Fairies as told to me by my friends in the clearing. Some stories are action packed while others are more cerebral. Some are about boys and some are about girls. I have tried to keep them short—like I said, some fairies tend to ramble—while maintaining the messages each thought important enough to share. I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoyed hearing them.

    FOREWORD

    Aynil’s Defining Moment

    Sometimes Aynil wished his parents had been more involved in his life, made more suggestions, guided him away from some bad elements; you know, told him what to do.

    You see Aynil was not what you would call a smart fairy. Intelligent, yes, he scored highest in his class on the F-A-Ts (Fairy Aptitude Tests) and would have been valedictorian had it not been for that

    catnip incident in grade ten. Catnip is strictly forbidden because it brings, well, cats into our environment. Cats will eat anything they get their paws on and once they get all nipped up you don’t know what they’ll do.

    Aynil and his parents were best friends. They always treated him like a grown-up and he treated them like kids so none of them really had any responsibilities. His parents were both products of the Nineteen-Sixties when the world was a safer place; not as safe as the Nineteen-Fifties but still safer than today. Television was in black and white and all three stations went off the air after midnight.

    Aynil first realized his family was different when he was six and came home from school with homework. He thought his life was over.

    When am I supposed to play if I have to do school work at home? he asked. He was, as they said in the Sixties, bummed. So his dad took the homework, threw it in the trash can, and said, go play.

    What the heck?! the young Aynil exclaimed with a smile.

    Aynil flew up a couple branches and told his best friend, a very cute girl fairy named Flaylen, what his father had just done while he helped her finish the math questions he no longer had to do. The next day he had to stay in for recess for not turning in his homework and got double the questions that night. Now he was really bummed. So his father threw that homework in the trash can.

    What the heck?! the young Aynil exclaimed again but with more concern. He dove into the trash head first to retrieve his assignment before it got that night’s apricot nectar all over it. The work took about ten minutes to finish because, like I said, he was intelligent, and he again went up to help Flaylen finish hers.

    That’s how life was for Aynil. If he didn’t like something he didn’t have to do it or eat it or deal with it in any way shape or form if he didn’t want to. IT STUNK!

    The Tale of Aynil the Traveler

    CHAPTER ONE

    A Unique Name

    My name is Aynil. The Ay sounds like I. I’ve had to explain that to everyone all my life. That is why I hated the name for most of it, my life that is. Aynil is an acronym for All You Need Is Love. My parents loved The Beatles. What a surprise. I am the only child of Barden, my father, and Joylyn, my mother, whom I called Barden and Joylyn, per their request. It wouldn’t be so weird now that I am almost fifty in human years but it definitely turned some parents’ heads when I was in elementary school.

    My father is a woodland fairy. It is seasonal work which gives him time to work on his novel. He has been writing it now for forty years and thinks he is nearing completion of his first draft. It is approximately twenty-thousand fairy pages which is substantially less in human pages because fairy novels are written one word to a page. The size of the books alone requires great strength just to lift them. It is the primary reason fairies prefer haiku poetry over other forms of literature.

    Joylyn, or Mom if you must, continues to be the primary money earner of the family and has been a fairy godmother for as long as I can remember. Fairy godparent is one of the sweetest gigs you can get because of the tips. Inevitably, the person you

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