The Teeth Fairy

Franklin Christopher

Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Horror • 88 Pages • Series: Fairymares & Nightales #1

Do you have disobedient children? Send them to me. I specialize in rugrats, gnats, and spoiled brats.
Parents bring me their worst nightmares wrapped in tiny shoes. Today, it’s Polly and Lucas, two spoiled little brats who tormented their new stepfather, Ernest, until he nearly lost his mind.
Most therapists would talk, listen, maybe scribble a few notes. Not me. I don’t waste time with gentle words or timeouts. My methods aren’t found in any earthly textbook. They’re otherworldly. Dangerous. The kind of methods that would cost me my license if anyone believed the stories. But no one ever does.
Because the truth is, I don’t heal children. I correct them. Permanently.
So when Polly and Lucas sat across from me, rolling their eyes, daring me to try, I reached for my book of Fairymares & Nightales. And from those pages, I summoned the only creature guaranteed to break their rebellion.
Not the sweet fairy who rewards lost teeth under pillows. No. Her sister. Her darker half.
The Teeth Fairy.

Dr. Truth - Child therapist
Polly - Defiant child, 13
Lucas - Defiant child
Ernest - Marissa’s husband, Polly and Lucas’ stepfather
Marissa - Ernest’s wife, Polly and Lucas’ mother
Veronica - Marissa’s friend

Ernest goes to Dr. Truth seeking help with Polly and Lucas because they are disobedient and won’t brush their teeth.
Dr. Truth says he will spend one hour with them and in twenty four hours they will be cured.
Dr. Truth summoned the teeth fairy out of a mirror and told them she loves to eat dirty teeth.
He said if they ever went a day without brushing and flossing or told an adult what they saw the teeth fairy would come for them and cause them unimaginable pain.
That night Polly told her parents about what happened in Dr. Truth’s office but they didn’t believe her.
After Polly goes to bed the teeth fairy shows up to take her teeth but Polly bites.
The teeth fairy says she'll be back for her teeth.
Polly cried to her mother who didn’t believe her.
Marissa takes Polly back to Dr. Truth.
Polly records her visit with Dr. Truth on her phone.
Dr. Truth tells Polly that to make it stop she must tell her parents she lied and play an audio recording in her room of a child screaming for the next thirty days because the teeth fairy hates that sound.
Polly tried to play the recording at dinner to prove that Dr. Truth is evil but it was just static.
Anonymous: Someone stands in the street and summons the teeth fairy, saying their life depends on it.
That night Polly hears a noise in the middle of the night.
She goes downstairs, finds a plate of treats, eats some then falls asleep on the couch before she brushes her teeth.
The teeth fairy comes and starts pulling out Polly's teeth.
Polly wakes up in the hospital with several missing teeth.
Marissa shows Polly their home camera which shows Polly pulling out her own teeth.
Epilogue: A month earlier - Ernest gives Marissa one month to get the children to behave or he is going to file for divorce.
Marissa is distraught because she doesn't want to go back to being a poor, single mother so she talks to her friend, Veronica who refers Marissa to Dr. Truth.
Marissa is the one who doctored the security footage, ruined the voice recording Polly took and possibly the one who summoned the Teeth Fairy.
Marissa was willing to sacrifice anything including her children’s temporary well-being in order to not lose Ernest and the lifestyle he provided.