Summer Guests

Mel just wanted to enjoy his stay-at-home vacation in his mostly quiet apartment. But when a he looked into a birdhouse and saw beautiful slanted golden eyes staring back at him his vacation was going to be anything but boring. They were certainly alive! One was green, a tiny body of jade, and the other was silkily human-colored, which was why he had been confused on that point. The wings could hardly be anything else, though they were very odd-looking, almost like thin, flexible glass. Soon he is sharing his apartment with a couple of fairy-like beings. Where did they come from? What we're they doing on Earth? And were they friends of something a whole lot more dangerous? First published in If: Worlds of Science Fiction, September 1959