For this week, the prompt for flash fiction submitted as part of #FairyTaleFlash is “St. Patrick’s Day, leprechauns, or fairies.” It’s interesting that in old Irish folktales, the leprechaun was one of the few fairies that actually had a job — he was their cobbler. The great W. B. Yeats suggested that the reason a fairy cobbler was so important was that the other fairies wore out their shoes with all their fancy dancing, which I always thought was a funny idea.

March 17, 2026

“The leprechaun bent over the fine fairy boot. Fixing them was ticklish – the sidhe imbued their footwear with strange spells, and didn’t care how much they wore them out. Hard to repair without shredding the magic, but was there a better way to earn a pot of gold?”
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