Hugo and the Bird: The Toothfairy

Jeff Mills is a dentist and facial consultant who has lived in North Devon in the South West of England for over forty years. He is married to Anne, with two children, now grown up. It was when these children were small that he started telling them stories featuring a nine-year-old boy called Hugo and a mysterious, fictitious birdlike animal that had certain magical powers. Many of the authors relations lived long distances away, and so it was to occupy his children and while away the hours driving to and from them that Hugo and his magical friend was born. As the children grew, Hugo faded but never disappeared completely. At the beginning of 2014, the weather was abysmal, and it never seemed to stop raining, and out of boredom, Hugo was suddenly resurrected. The story was never planned and seemed to write itself, as if Hugo himself was writing it. The ending was as much a surprise to the author as it will be to you.