Kid Stuff
"Kid Stuff" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.Asimov wrote the story in January 1953, intending it for a new magazine called Fantastic, but it was rejected by its editor, Harold Browne.Jan Prentiss, a fantasy writer is busy at work, when a foot-long talking insect materialises before him.However, since the Industrial Revolution, the elves and other related beings have avoided mankind, since they are unable to manipulate electricity, and have retreated to Avalon, an island in the Atlantic Ocean cloaked in a psychic shield.Prentiss' son comes home from school, and the elf tries to take control of his mind, too; but the boy, being a modern 1950s child, doesn't believe in "kid stuff" like fairies.