This is more whimsical and humorous than it is erotic. But then humor is always erotic. "He makes me laugh," is one of the most often given reasons for a woman to love an otherwise unattractive, unlovable man.
The story does contain descriptions / reference to normal sex, oral, anal, and masturbation.
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WARNING! All of my writing is intended for adults over the age of 18 ONLY. Stories may contain strong or even extreme sexual content. All people and events depicted are fictional and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Actions, situations, and responses are fictional ONLY and should not be attempted in real life.
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It was very late at night- or very early in the morning depending on your point of view. I am always up sometime during the night. I think I inherited that from my father. In any case, it was a little after 2:00 am and I was sitting at my computer reading through stories that I planned to enter in this year's Halloween Story contests.
My in-house editor had already gone through them and corrected my atrocious grammar and my even more atrocious spelling. ... The only good thing that can be said about my spelling is that at least I remember that there is an "r" in shirt.
The stories were ready, but it is always a good idea to go back and read them one last time as if you've never read them before. Sometimes, for that final reading, I even read them aloud. Once in a while I'll find a sentence or phrase that doesn't say what I thought it said.
An hour later, I had made two very minor changes to one of the stories and was about to head back to bed when a small voice said, "Laddie, laddie, laddie. Is that the lot? You'll be a real disappointment to us all this year, ya will. An' I was tellin' all me friends at the pub that you were me favorite author."
I looked around trying to find the source of the voice and discovered a man about three inches high sitting on a dead mouse near the corner of my desk. It was a computer mouse, not a rodent. It no longer functioned, but I had merely shoved it aside and never gotten around to throwing it away. It made the perfect bench for him as he sat on it with his legs crossed, holding his top hat in his hands and smoking a long-stemmed pipe. His hat and his frock coat were emerald green, and he was wearing matching green pants with green slippers that curled up at the toes.
Some people might have reacted in shock at seeing something like this on their desk in the middle of the night, but my connection to reality is tenuous enough that nothing surprises me anymore. Besides, I have a sleep disorder that sometimes allows me to wake up without totally waking up or go to sleep without totally going to sleep. The result is I can start dreaming while I am awake or I wake up and keep dreaming. I've even learned to control the dreams somewhat, so, it's like having your own personal holo-deck that I can take with me wherever I go. With all of that in my life, I've learned to just go with the flow and see where things end up.
So, rather than freaking out, I replied, "I thought Leprechauns were supposed to be about three feet high, not three inches high."
He laughed, stood up and said, "We can be any size we want to be."
Suddenly he was eight or nine feet tall crouching between the desk and the ceiling. His bass voiced boomed out "But it's kind of hard to hide behind the flowers when you are ten times your normal size."
He jumped off the desk and landed with a resounding thud before shrinking to my expected three feet high. "Ye be disappointin' us this year," he said. "Ye don't have an Irish story for Halloween. And where would Halloween be without the ould sod. It all started there, ye know."
"Yes, I know." I replied. "And I know that it's supposed to be on the dark of the moon following the fall equinox, not on October 31st. But the pixies haven't been whispering in my ear this year and I have nothing to write."
"Ah, yes," he laughed. "The spriggan lassie is still a bit upset about your collection of erotic faerie images."
"That was a Tinkerbell erotic Photoshop contest!" I blurted out as I looked over my shoulder at printouts of Tinkerbell in a series of very naughty poses. "I suppose she was offended," I said.
"Offended?" he snorted. "That wee lassie wasn't offended. She was jealous. She was spittin' thorns that you didn't ask her to pose for ya."
"Tell her I'm sorry." I said, "Maybe she will bring me a story for next year."
"Aye," he said, "but that doesna solve the problem for this year, does it?"
He took a long draw on his pipe before pointing the stem at me and saying, "Though I have a story for ye. It's all about how I defeated the four west country cailleach sisters."
"Wait a minute," I said and starting typing furiously on my keyboard. "What's a cailleach sister? And, who are you? What's your name?"
"Some people like to call them witches," he said, "but the west country sisters weren't wise ones. Hags would be a better word. And these hags were more like demons. I think the English word is 'succubus'. They would draw the life out of man as they drew out his seed."
"OK," I sputtered, trying to keep up with him. "I'm getting this. But I would still like to know your name."
"Me name is ..." He made a noise that sounded very much like a cat hacking up a very large hairball. "But most modern people, especially Americans, have a wee bit o' trouble with the old tongue."
He smiled at me and his eyes literally twinkled. "You can call me 'Danny,'" he said, "... like in the song."
He then launched into an off-key rendition of
Danny Boy
. I was hoping he wasn't going to ask my opinion on his singing. I'm really not a good liar, and I have learned the hard way in the past that it is not a good idea to piss off magical creatures. Luckily he didn't ask. He just finished the final chorus and wiped the tears from his eyes.
"I'll call the story, 'Danny Boy,'" I told him, and that brought a fresh flood of tears.
"It were a long, long time ago," he began, "before the English put their boots on the throats of the blue people, back when Halloween was dancing around the bonfires on Dark Night and bringin' the glowing coals home in a carved turnip to relight the family hearth with purified fire."
He looked up at the ceiling as if he was treasuring some memories and laughed. "There was a bit more to those fires and the dancing than a lot of your history books will tell ya," he said. "You were supposed to give yourself over to the night and the fire and the spirits. Nothin' between you and the night... Nothin' between you and the fire... Nothin' between you and the stars... And it was a very dark night as ye walked back to your hut naked with nothing but a burning coal in a carved out turnip to light your way."
He took a deep sigh. "Lot's of things could happen in front of those fires or on those paths, and aye, it often did. If ye check the ancient records, ye'll find that a good many Celtic laddies and lassies were born just after the summer solstice. Some of the young lassies would even signal their willingness by making their lanterns wink."
I must have looked confused because he pointed the stem of his pipe at me again and explained, "After ye carved full eyes out of the turnip, ye put part of the core back in one of them so that the eye appeared to wink. Some young lassies would carry that extra piece out of the house in their mouths so their parents wouldn't know. ... Some wives did the same thing."
He laughed, but then suddenly looked very sour, almost angry. "Unfortunately," he spat out, "so did the west country sisters. They would appear on the path and walk as though they were on their way home and seeking some company, but they were really casting their nets into the blackness to trap young men."