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Lucent Sylph
RJ Conte, author
Lucas Thissel has something he fears: an alien species of palm-sized glass fairies called Lucent Sylphs. They came through a portal from a metaphysical dimension, and they indenture themselves as slaves to human beings. Too much neglect or unkindness, and they will cloud over and disintegrate. Too much love and their hearts are overcome and burst. And one has attached herself to him. Lucas juggles the impossibility of not becoming attached to his Lucent Sylph, Nissa, who he rescued from the gutter outside of a former friends' home. But with a distant, angry father, and deceased mother, she is all he has. He concocts a plan to send her back through the portal with a recording of his own voice telling her how much he loves her, but the plan backfires when her body begins to crack. She explains that she needs to physically be near the person loving her in order to feed off of it and survive, but that her life was worth living having known, loved, and lost him. She encourages him to use that love to benefit others in his life and the world, and explodes in a burst of beautiful sounds, colors, and sparkles.
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