My last tale
(Forever Autumn)
wasn't exactly a bundle of laughs so I thought I'd make amends by indulging in a little more whimsy (and hope to please those of my readers who have told me I should write more tales like this).
Characters in sex scenes are eighteen years old or over. All characters and places are imaginary—any resemblance to persons living or dead would be astonishing. With acknowledgements to Scheherazade whose umpteenth tale inspired this story and to Billy Wilder's 1959 film
Some Like It Hot
for inspiring about half-a-dozen lines of the tale's dialogue.
This story is dedicated to Sabina who enjoyed my
Space Oddity
tales.
Copyright © 2019 to the author
Harem Scarum
Aladdina's eyes widened and a tiny sigh of longing escaped her lips. This was her favourite bit of the harem's day: the Princess Yasmin was about to take her bath.
Oh, there were plenty of other visual delights in the huge chamber, most of the Sultan's hundred or so beautiful wives, concubines and hand-maidens lolling around nude to combat the seasonal heat. And there were always the ones apparently without shame who passed the time by masturbating openly or kissing and licking other women's
yonis
as ladies of quality called their sweet shaven clefts. Aladdina, being by birth and inclination a street girl, preferred the blunter terms of the market place such as 'pussy' or 'quim'.
(The first time she had spied on the harem, an enchanted Aladdina
had returned home to ask her mother, Saadia, the best way to remove hair from her pussy. In Aladdina's opinion, she was cursed with more pubic hair than any woman deserved to be. Saadia had shaken her head, wearied by some of the grandiose ideas that her daughter came home with at times. "Aladdina, you are day-dreaming again. Smooth pussies are for grand ladies, not those of us who have to earn a living, although goodness knows
you
do little enough of that. Such frivolities are not for the likes of us. A very hairy pussy is good enough for me and was good enough for your grandmother and for her mother before her so be satisfied with your lot in life and be grateful for your plentiful hairiness.")
So Aladdina could only envy the smooth pussies of the harem ladies. Yet all feelings of envy paled when the princess came from her inner chamber, shed her flimsy robe and allowed her hand-maidens to lead her into the bath's clear water and shampoo her lissom body all over. Aladdina believed, although she couldn't be certain, that the princess often had a climax when her pussy was being washed. Aladdina sighed again. Her all-pervading day-dream was that one day, by some miracle, she would be able to take the princess as a bride.
Aladdina had been in the market place one morning when the princess and her entourage had passed by. A sudden gust of wind had whipped at the palanquin's curtain which had rippled open by the merest fraction and Aladdina had caught a fleeting glimpse of the Princess Yasmin's unveiled face. Aladdina fell instantly in love.
She shifted a little on her uncomfortable perch. Aladdina had found this place some weeks previously during one of her rare occasions of honest employment. She had been helping a local trader deliver some goods to the palace and, growing bored while he dealt with the Sultan's treasurer, had wandered off to have a look around, see if there might be some easy pickings. And it was here that she had discovered the high wall surmounted by a trellis of arabesque carvings. Beyond, Aladdina could hear the chattering of women and spotting a narrow ledge climbed up and peered through the trellis. It was the harem and there was the princess.
Since then—and having found several breaches in the citadel's surrounding walls—Aladdina had sneaked into the palace whenever she could evade the guards and made for this point where she could gaze into the harem. She always carried a wicker basket with her so that if questioned she could claim to having been delivering goods.
But on this day Aladdina had grown careless, paying no attention to anything but the Princess Yasmin and other residents of the harem. Without warning, a huge hand gripped the back of her neck and she was hauled from the ledge and plonked on the marble flooring. She found herself staring into the fierce hawk-like eyes of a Sultan's janissary.
And not only his eyes were fierce. His huge hooked nose was fierce, his bristling black whiskers were fierce, and above all the long curved dagger held against Aladdina's throat was fierce. In fact, 'fierce' was an inadequate word for that weapon. Something about it made Aladdina glad that she'd gone to the privy before leaving home that morning.
"Sooo!" hissed the soldier, glaring down on the boyish figure before him. "What's this? A dirty dog of a snooper, eh? Do you know what we do with dirty dogs of snoopers?"
Gulping, Aladdina shook her head.
"We cut their dangling bits off!" snarled the janissary, "And when we've cut their dangling bits off we cut their heads off. So say goodbye to all three, you little wretch!"
"You'll have a hard job cutting my dangling bits off," said Aladdina.
"Why's that? And don't think you can camelshit me—I've heard all the excuses!"
"Because I haven't got any," Aladdina told the man, loosening the front of her tunic to reveal neat little breasts with prominent nipples.
The guard goggled then roughly tugged the front of Aladdina's pantaloons open to peer down. "You're a girl!" He looked puzzled. "Now here's a dilemma. We've been told what to do with dirty dogs of snoopers but not what to do with curious cats of snoopesses." He stroked his oiled beard then leered. "There is something we can do and if it pleases me I might forget I've ever seen you."
Aladdina knew exactly what was in this lecher's pinhead of a mind. "You mean..."
"Yes, my pretty desert flower, that's what I mean. I have a most impressive
zabb
."
"They all say that you braggart," she scoffed, "Prove it!"
Aladdina had often come across the janissary's type in the market place. Her slender build led some of them to take her for an effeminate young man as the janissary had at first; the more astute recognised her for what she was, an attractive young woman. But whatever they thought she was, they all wanted the same thing, to cram one or another of her orifices with their stiffened
zabbs
. Aladdina knew exactly how to handle them.
Offended by the apparent disbelief and mockery, the soldier lowered the front of his trousers. Although not in the least interested in what lurked beneath men's nether garments, Aladdina had to admit his boast was not an idle one. His
zabb
resembled one of the huge sausages she had seen hanging in the market place while his cods were like two small melons.
"Not bad," she nodded, "but it'd be so much more convenient if you put that knife down and removed your britches completely."
Smirking, the janissary laid his dagger carefully on the floor and stripped his trousers off. And that was when Aladdina handled him the way she handled the market place perverts: she gave him a well-aimed kick where it hurt. While the man squirmed cursing on the ground, Aladdina picked up his trousers, pitched them over the wall into the harem and was rewarded by a chorus of startled screams. She grabbed her wicker basket and ran. She dashed round a corner and ran straight into the arms of a gigantic eunuch rushing the other way to investigate the uproar. The scimitar he carried was so large that Aladdina flinched at the sight of it, believing for a moment that her time had come.
Instead the giant grabbed Aladdina by one arm. "Who are you?" he demanded, "You're not one of the palace servants. What are you doing here? What's all that screaming? And why are you in such a hurry?"
Aladdina held up her empty basket. "Please sir, I've just made a delivery and on my way out I saw a soldier peeping through a gap at the top of that big wall down there. He took off his trousers and threw them over the wall and that's when the screaming started. Sir, he was not wearing any under-garments and he waggled his
zabb
at me! He ran at me shouting, 'You'll do, girl, get your pants off!' so I kicked him hard and ran!" Aladdina lowered her eyes modestly and gave a little sniffle as if holding back a tear. "Oh, sir! I was so frightened! His pizzle was truly enormous and I've only got a tiny lady's garden."
The eunuch freed her arm and made for the corner. "Spying on the harem, was he? And throwing his trousers at them. Right! off come his dangling bits and then his head. And you run along home, girl. No reason for you to be frightened now." He sped off, waving his scimitar and shouting wrathful words. Head cocked to one side, Aladdina waited and listened.