Submitted for your approval, my latest story The Wee Folk. It's raw so keep that in mind it will get a decent edit when I get the time! Not sure if it will in here so I may have to put it up in segments? Be that as it may...
The Wee Folk

                                                  Ernest Stewart



 His name was Albert Higglemier Esq and herr Higglemier was half of the 

Higglemier and Richter law firm, well know lawyers of Strausbourg. Herr

Higglemier had recently acquired a chalet through a tax foreclosure in the

Forrest just outside of Bad Peterstal for a song. With the heat of late June he

decided to spend a few weeks there in the peace and quiet of the deep, dark,

forest. the cities heat and hustle and bustle he looked forward to getting

away as he had with his parents every summer of his youth, so off to the woods

he went.

 Herr Higglemier headed east in a new Porsche Macan Turbo that he bought 

for the trip as some how his Mercedes seemed out of place in the deep woods.

And deep woods they were he thought as he headed south away Bad

Peterstal he came upon his turn about minuets later and followed a curving

road down a driveway until he came onto a clearing in the woods

where sat the chalet. He parked the Porsche at the top of the circular driveway

and stared at his beautiful chalet.

 Herr Higglemier couldn't believe his , the property had looked like a good 

buy on the internet, but now that he was here it look like a great buy how he had

obtained it for such a low price had him amazed. He walked around the house

before he went inside and it all looked Wunderbar!

 He was thinking that must be terrible on the inside and prepared himself for 

the worst as he opened the front door. However the inside was as beautiful as

the outside was. He was prepared to spend $,000 Euros to fix the place up but

what he could see he would not have to spend a single Euro cent!

 He had bought the property for back taxes the former owner apparently had 

driven away one day and never came back, his loss was my gain thought herr

Higglemier. The house was completely furnished and he went room to room

and looked into the closets he found that they were still full of clothes, coats,

shoes, towels and blankets and such, even his suitcases were still there! Herr

Higglemier didn't know what to make of that but since it had been a drive

the city and he was tired, he decided to unpack his car and try to get settled

in and relax.

 A half an hour later his living room was full of his luggage, boxes and bags 

and bags of groceries in his kitchen. He put the groceries away first but again the

shelves were full of can goods and his freezer full of frozen food but the

refrigerator was full of spoiled food which he quickly threw out and then spayed

the refrigerator with a can of germ killer he had found under the sink. He put his

few groceries away once the smell had died down. Why would the former owner

take off and leave everything behind he wondered and if there was one thing herr

Higglemier loved, it was a good mystery!

 He popped a dinner into the microwave as he popped a bottle of champagne 

to celebrate his good fortune. He poured almost half of the bottle of Bollinger

Grand Annee into a large water glass and drank it down; how he needed that to

quench his thirst. He refilled the glass and then drank the rest of the bottle and

put it in the garbage can and wondered how to dispose of it, or at least, how to

get it out of the kitchen. He found a pair of steel garbage cans outside the back

door and put the foul kitchen bags inside one of them.

 He then returned to the kitchen and retrieved his dinner  the microwave 

and his glass the table and made his way into the living room. He took a

seat on the couch placed the glass and dinner on the coffee table and tried to

turn on a near by lamp but couldn't find the switch, but by accident found out that

all he need do was touch the base. Just in time too as the sun was beginning to

set.

 He found the flat screen controller and tried to tune on the tv but the batteries 

were dead. He had brought his lap top and decided to play a couple of old Beat

Club disks and he suddenly returned to the days of his youth as he had grown up

watching Beat Club and before he had watched the second disk he had fallen

fast asleep on the couch.

 He awoke to a stiff neck and bright sunshine pouring through the windows. 

His head was a bit hung-over the bottle of Bollinger but a second cup

of expresso he felt much better and decided to put his clothes and such away. He

spent the morning changing sheets and moving the former owners clothes and

stuff in general to a spare guest bedroom down the hall the master-suite.

 By the time it was done it was noon and he decided to go to town for more 

groceries, spare batteries and find out what were the cable companies, the day of

garbage pick up etc. He stopped at the police station to find out what he could

about the former owner. All they knew was about a year ago they were notified

by Deutsche Post that the mail box was overflowing and there was at least three

months of mail in the mail box. He learned that former owner was Ernst

Schneider who was a banker Düsseldorf. He asked about herr

Schneider's personal effects, had he any family where he could send them. ,

like Albert, Ernst had never married so he could keep them throw them away

as he liked. When he bought the property everything on it was his.

 On his first stop home he stopped at the mail box and pulled all the mail out

and put it into a spare bag and drove around the house and parked

next to a three car garage and fumbled around looking for the key to the side

door and eventually found it and went inside. What he found inside was truly

amazing.

 What he found sitting next to the door was a like new 39 Mercedes-Benz 

W31 type G4 staff car and sitting on the other side of that was an car, a

36 Auburn boat tailed speedster 852 and on the other side of that was a 2 year

old Audi Q7. Could be a million Euros worth of cars that were suddenly his. Herr

Higglemier was stunned by his good fortune. He had paid $25,000 Euros in back

taxes the house alone was worth times that and now the cars. Truly the gods

were smiling down on him!

 He decided for the time being the Porsche would have to live outdoors as he 

carefully locked the garage door, then began unloading the car and opened the

back door of the house and went in. He put his bags down on the table then

turned and locked the back door. He spent the rest of that day and evening

putting things away and bagging up the former resident's things in preparation for

going to the local dump, on the morrow.

 One hundred meters back in the woods many  had been watching 

Albert's every move. About quarter of the tribe of local dark fairies took copious

notes for the tribal council meeting that would soon come when the moon was

full. They had literally made a killing of the former resident, taking all of his gold

and then inviting him out to their village to have him for dinner and not in the nice

way either!

 Whether or not Albert would join Ernst was up to the fairy King and Queen to 

decide. It wouldn't do to get the police involved by making it too obvious that

there was something going on, like a former King and Queen had done by killing

a Schutzstaffel Obersturmbannführer and gotten the Gestapo involved like they

had those many ago. The end result was that most of the colony had been

wiped out with the few survivors running for their lives. , many lessons were

learned of the mistakes that were made, mistakes that would never be repeated

again!

 They watched Albert's every move until he went to sleep and then they walked 

the mile back to their village in the deep, dark, woods. As they reached the

village another crew went to take their places to watch over Albert until they were

relieved by the first crew just sunrise. They would keep a 24-hour watch on

Albert until the day of the full moon.

 Albert, meanwhile, was unaware of his stalkers and went about relaxing and 

exploring the local villages, sometimes walking down the shaded lanes for miles

on end. While he was gone the dark fairies took advantage of these sojourns to

investigate every aspect of Albert’s house, garage and grounds. By the time of

June's full moon they knew everything they needed to know. Since the full moon

fell on the summer solstice there would be much magic in the air. Trouble was,

their cousins, the "light fairies" would be all over the place. Indecent creatures

that never wore a stitch of clothing, flying around in the all together for all to see.

It was almost more than a dark fairy could stand.

 Not to mention the light fairies were vegans, eating only honey and fruit with 

nary a bite of meat. I mean, how was it possible to go through life without tasting

those incredibly delicious humans. There were other meats and they would eat

them if they had too. Back during the aftermath of the Gestapo raids there were

no humans to be found and they had to make do with squirrels and hares, those

were bleak days indeed. They moved what was left of their village and what was

left of their clan a full twenty miles away to it's current location, deeper into the

forest.

 They had their gardens but they grew mostly garlic, onions, herbs and spices, 

things that would enhance the flavor of meat. The occasional yam or pumpkin for

festivals and celebrations and a score of apple trees for the making of hard cider,

their favorite drink.

 On the day of the full moon and summer solstice an old friend of Albert’s, 

Hannah Mueller called to say she was in the neighborhood and wondered if she

could stop by for a visit. Albert had been head over heels in love with Hannah

when they had been at university together but hadn't kept in touch over the

so Albert was in mixed emotions about her, but curiosity got the better of him and

he invited her to stop by. She said she'd be by about threeish and got directions

to the chalet. As it was almost noon Albert decided to do it right and made a dash

to town for a lavish meal and a few bottles of Bollinger's Grand Annee and had

everything ready when fraulein Mueller arrived.

 When Hannah rang the front door bell, Albert sprang to answer it and with the 

first look the intervening melted away and to Albert it was yesterday

when they had been lovers and friends in school.

 "Please, won't you come in Hannah," said Albert as he led her into the living 

room. "Let me look at you, you haven't changed a bit, you are just as lovely as I

remember you our school days!"

 "You are too kind Albert, but you always were," Hannah said. "It quite a place 

you have here," she added.

 Yes, I got the most amazing deal when I bought the chalet, I bought it for 

delinquent taxes. The old owner left without a word and never came back. I got

not only the house but three magnificent autos out in the garage too. Tell me

Hannah, how have you been and what have you been up to, oh and can I get you

something to drink, a glass of ice water or a glass of champagne," Albert asked.

 "As hot as it is, either would do, I'll leave it up to you, Albert, Hannah replied.


 Silly girl, thought Albert, champagne it is. "Please make yourself comfortable

and I'll be right back," Albert said as he made his way to the kitchen to retrieve

one of the bottles of Bollinger's, two glasses and a bucket full of ice.

 When he returned she ask to use the rest room and he showed her the way. 

He then returned to the living room and popped the cork on the Bollinger and

poured them both a flute full.

 When she returned and was seated he proposed a toast to old times and they 

both drank the flutes right down. Over the rest of the bottle they talked about old

times and brought each other up to date on their lives. He then took her on a tour

of the house and then grounds, and the autos in the garage, and she seemed

very impressed by it all. When he asked if she would stay for dinner she replied

she would stay as as he liked!

 This statement sent his mind reeling, as Hannah was always remembered as 

the one who got away, the girl he should have married. She was probably the

reason that he never married as other women could hold a candle to her.

When he came back to reality he found himself holding hands with her as they

strolled along the property and decided they would have a picnic in the shade of

the forest as they did when they were at school.

 Of course, this time around, it wouldn't be just frankfurters and potato salad, 

this time he'd do it right, and he did.

 They dined on a small salad, fine marbled steaks,  asparagus and a

Schwarzwälder kirschtorte for dessert, a local favorite! They also managed to

polish off another bottle of Bollinger's and then lay down upon the blanket side by

side and talked again of old times.

 A hundred meters away their every movement was watched over by the dark 

fairies. They wondered what the arrival of the human female, would mean to the

King & Queen and when Hannah and Albert got up and made their way back to

the chalet the fairies left and headed back for their meeting with the King and

Queen and the rising of the solstice moon.

 When Hannah and Albert got back to the chalet, Hannah excused herself to 

use the rest room and Albert put away the remains of the picnic. The only thing

he saved was the Schwarzwälder kirschtorte of which they had only eaten half.

disposing of the rest Albert ran up stairs to use the master bedroom

bathroom and then returned to the living room to await Hannah's arrival.

 By this time the sun had almost set so he turned on two of the lamps but 

turned them all the way down low for a romantic setting and wonder how Hannah

felt about ...