And they lived happily ever after…

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Sleeping Beauty wandered through the palace aimlessly, vodka in hand. Her prince would be back soon, he’d expect her to be dressed for dinner, her hair piled high with diamonds, her eyelashes curled, but she was already half-drunk and could not be arsed.

“Not that he ever really looks at me anymore,” she muttered to herself, taking a mouthful of her drink and letting out a bitter sigh, “not while I’m awake anyway.” His fetishes no longer disturbed her, they were just one more irritation out of many.

She wandered through the grand hall, kicking off her shoes and shimmying around the floor. It was years since she had properly danced, and the lack of music was no barrier, she could feel a song in her skin, waiting to break out. She had spent a hundred years frozen still, and now three more bored stiff. She knew there were lives out there ready to be lived, new princes, new challenges, new mythical beasts to ride.

“Whatever happened to happy ever after?” she asked to the elaborate painted ceiling as she spun around the hall in her best approximation of a pirouette. She wondered if it was possible to hire herself a wicked witch, and made a mental note to google it later.

12 thoughts on “And they lived happily ever after…”

  1. I like your tiny stories. Sometimes I think I feel the need to expand more, but then I see something like this and remember a story can be a paragraph or a couple of sentences.
    Also, I love your background – did you draw that?

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    1. Thank you very much! Yes, I drew it, I like to doodle 🙂 I think I struggled with the idea of writing tiny stories at first, then I saw other bloggers do them. I like the challenge of trying to capture a biggish idea in a small space.
      Thank you for stopping by 🙂

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