Written for Friday Fictioneers. Friday Fictioneers is a Flash fiction community curated by the wonderful Rochelle Wisoff. You can read and add yours by clicking the link provided at the end of this post. In response to the photo prompt by J Hardy Carroll here’s…
What Princes Do After School
The young prince and his friend the ranger stood in front of the iron gates.
“Where’s that Rakhshasa you told me about?”
“It’s roaming in the bone-gardens.”
“Where’s that? I won’t go anywhere else.”
“Hush, ranger. If I’m not back in an hour return to the king…”
“An hour? I’m going back.”
The brave prince climbed up the fence and disappeared inside. Inside the bedchamber of snoring princess the prince considered his options.
Kiss it is.
The ranger heard a scream.
“What happened?”
“They didn’t say how to reverse age in the stories.” The prince said as they both ran.
tamaldasblog 
A nasty surprise to wake up to! Not like the fairytale. Good fun 🙂
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Humorous. Fun to read. 🙂
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Thanks.
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Dear Tamal,
I don’t imagine a 100 year old princess would be all that appealing to a young prince. Made me chuckle.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Glad to made you chuckle.
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Lovely idea, but I can’t believe a princess would snore.
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What’s wrong with snoring? That’s normal. You are being racist to the snorers 😛
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There’s nothing wrong with snoring. I just thought princesses were above such human frailties.
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Oh, ok. 🙂
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If she’s 100 years old… she is definitely snoring!! What a, ahem, surprise for the prince…
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Yea, thanks for reading.
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Oops! The snoring should have warned him. Or he should have stayed back to see if his kiss had any effect 😊
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🙂
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That was a great twist.
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thanks 🙂
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Oh what fun. I love how you turn the tale upside down and slowly reveal the source of the scream.
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thanks for reading
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A cowardly prince,😉
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Indeed. 🙂
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