Beware of Fairies Bearing Gifts is a short story from the Time Travel Diaries of James Urquhart and Elizabeth Bicester which I wrote just before Christmas 2022.

In summer, the veranda of Elizabeth’s house at Hamgreen in West Sussex is a perfect place for weary time-travellers to relax and watch the Martian sunset.

It was also perfect place for James to ask a question of Elizabeth which he had not got round to asking,

Who was her mother?

If only he had realised the cosequences of question.