Microscopic Stories

Fairies

Fairies

There were fairies in the back yard, Arnold Whitter was convinced of it. He tried taking photographs of them but they were too fast. As soon as he’d got them in focus, they’d gone. In the end, he resorted to faking it. His deception was soon revealed by modern technology. He was “outed.”

Everyone laughed and told him stories of the Cottingley fairies. “It’s been done,” they told him. Arnold braved it out and insisted it was true. He became a national object of derision.

What really added injury to insult, however, was when the fairies sued him for defamation.


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