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    Fifi and the Swiftifoots and how they found the Flowers of Paradise
    Fifi and the Swiftifoots and how they found the Flowers of Paradise
    Fifi and the Swiftifoots and how they found the Flowers of Paradise
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    Fifi and the Swiftifoots and how they found the Flowers of Paradise

    By Linda Talbot

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    Fifi and the Swiftifoots and how they found the Flowers of Paradise tells of Fifi, a fairy who accidentally flies into the forest of the Swiftifoots - mushroom people whose homes have been flooded and whom she joins in a search for new homes and the fabulous flowers of immortality. En route, travelling back through time, they meet and are joined by a string of creatures- improbable but biologically based on fact. They narrowly miss a disastrous clash with Man, before finally finding the flowers and their exotic queen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Talbot
    Release dateNov 20, 2014
    ISBN9781311438690
    Fifi and the Swiftifoots and how they found the Flowers of Paradise
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    Linda Talbot

    Linda Talbot has written fantasy for children and adults and for many years reviewed art, theatre and books in London. She now lives in Crete. She published "Fantasy Book of Food"; rhymes, stories and recipes for children and "Five Rides by a River" - about Suffolk, seen from a bicycle! She contributed a chapter to a book about Conroy Maddox, the British surrealist and features on art to "Topos" the German landscape magazine. She published short stories with the British Fantasy Society as well as stories and poetry in other magazines. And she launched "Wordweavers", an online supplement of poetry and fiction, published in conjunction with The Cretan International Community.

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      Fifi and the Swiftifoots and how they found the Flowers of Paradise - Linda Talbot

      Fifi and the Swiftifoots

      and how they found the

      Flowers of Paradise

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      by Linda Talbot

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      Illustrations by Diana Munz

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      Table of Contents

      Fifi and the Swiftifoots

      Chapter One

      Illustrations:

      Home of the Swiftifoots

      Sven, Fifi and Snurk

      Begins the trek. . .

      Chapter Two

      They reach the Sea of Hot Suds

      Legs the Squid

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Onward!

      Chapter Five

      The Queen sits singing

      Thank you

      Author’s Note

      Fifi and the Swiftifoots

      and how they found the

      Flowers of Paradise

      ONE

      On the dark side of the sun there is a world which is wild, wet and whispering with trees. And the forests are full of Swiftifoots.

      Home of the Swiftifoots

      We do not live on the dark side of the sun, but on a dismal day, you may mistake a mushroom in a damp ditch for a Swiftifoot. For if you were borne before the wind on a rain cloud to the land where they live, you would see that their squashed faces are the colour of mushroom tops, while from bodies with ridges like the underside of the mushroom, long arms hang, and their legs grow like stalks on which they bound at great speed through the grass. If you touched one, you would find him very damp and if you followed him through the grass, you would see him slither in alarm down a deep, dark hole.

      Under the trees are other holes, linked by twisting tunnels that drip all day. So the Swiftifoots are very bad tempered and when they quarrel their voices bounce back and forth as fiercely as the rain. They long for the warmth of the sun; to swing at the tops of the trees where the sky is sometimes blue and to run through the grass that rustles dryly. But the sun would shrivel them up.

      Snurk is the oldest Swiftifoot. He can even remember when some of the birch, larch and beech trees were saplings. But now his legs are bandy, his back bent and he can only croak occasional complaints. Yet, on the many days when the Swiftifoots are more muddled than usual, Snurk decides what to do.

      Snurk – the oldest Swiftifoot

      One morning, when the rain runs in rivers off the leaves, Snurk finds fifty Swiftifoots croaking loudly in the forest clearing. Stepping forward, Sven, a good looking young Swiftifoot, better able to keep his temper than most, says, Come and see what we’ve found in the forest. We are wondering whether it’s good to eat.

      Snurk follows Sven through the sopping grass until, in a pile of leaves, curled in a tiny ball, he sees a curious creature with long, silky hair, the colour of buttercups wound round her like a

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