The Merchant of Elves: Uncollected Anthology
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Asa makes a living as a fixer, pretending to intercede with elves she doesn't believe in to keep construction projects running smoothly in tourist-booming Iceland. Most everyone believes in the "Hidden People" except her…but that changes when she unexpectedly leaps into a magical realm. The impact of her work ends up biting her in the butt, as unruly supernatural figures make extreme demands…and issue extraordinary threats to back them up. Can Asa keep elves and humanity from lashing out at each other by making an unprecedented deal to save them all? If her skills as a salesperson can't cut it, ancient magic could bring the modern world to its knees and expose dark secrets that are better left hidden forever.
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The Merchant of Elves - Robert Jeschonek
The Merchant of Elves
UNCOLLECTED ANTHOLOGY: FAIRY TALES
ROBERT JESCHONEK
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Also by Robert Jeschonek
The Merchant of Elves
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UNCOLLECTED ANTHOLOGY: FAIRY TALES
THE MERCHANT OF ELVES
Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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The Merchant of Elves
These are elf lands, all right.
Crouching, Asa Grímsdóttir brushed her fingers over the mossy rock at her feet. "It's very plain to see."
Damn.
Ivar, the burly construction foreman, tugged at his thick red beard. "I told the bosses we should bring in a psychic before we ever broke ground."
Now you've got a bunch of equipment that won't work right,
said Asa, all thanks to those mischievous elves.
Ivar shook his head. "How can something we never see cause so much trouble?"
"They’re experts. They’ve been doing it as long as humans have lived in Iceland. Asa's long blonde hair fluttered in the stiff breeze as she frowned at a nearby backhoe, which had been idle for days.
And you're falling further behind schedule by the minute."
It's the Blue Lagoon all over again,
said Ivar. So how do we fix it?
The same way they fixed the Blue Lagoon project.
Asa got to her feet and straightened her wooly sweater, its gray-and-white design mirroring the cloudy July sky. We give the elves what they want, and they'll let us get on with it.
You make it sound easy.
Ivar, who was about Asa's age--somewhere in his thirties--and having a really bad week,