This week, our gracious host Rochelle invites Friday Fictioneers to step right in and tell a story in 100 words, prompted by Magaly Guerrero‘s inspiring photograph. Thank you Magaly.
Princess
Wearing the exasperation her movie star sunglasses can’t hide, the woman leaves the bank, checks her phone, and marches to the car way ahead of her distracted, prattling four-year-old.
Gramma sewed me a pree-tty pink skirt with lots of gold stars right on top of my sister’s old dress…
I got pink barrettes and pink flip-flops too. I’m co-or-d’nate… and mamma’s princess purse with the gold chain and shiii-nyy colors goes with that too!
Then she spots the magic puddle and stomps in.
I’m makin’ bubbles and walkin’ on diamonds.
–Come on!! I don’t have all day!!!
The girl strolls to the rumbling car.
A princess ne-veeer hurries.
unbuttoned or undone 
The magic puddle… Imagination Explosion 🙂
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Absolutely! Grown ups avoid puddles but kids really see them for the magic they are.
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That’s great. A proper princess, though a bit spoilt, bless her! Great story
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Thank you Lynn. A proper princess in her very own kingdom sometimes forgets grown ups’ imperatives. 🙂
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Ha! Very true 🙂
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Magnifique!
A moment in a life, and a life in a moment.
Love love love it, Em.
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Merci, merci, merci.
Glad you spent a moment with the little princess and enjoyed it.
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Dear Emmy,
I could just see that ‘magic puddle’ splattering all the princess’s pretty pink. Delightful and exasperatingly sweet.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you Rochelle. It was fun to write, a little less fun to whittle it to a manageable length! There is a lot of stuff on the cutting room floor!
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I love it, beginning to end, especially the magic puddle. Mums need to be patient with princesses.
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A magic puddle is where upside down trees and clouds collide, right? Totally irresistible.
And you are right, mums need to be patient. Thank you G. for loving the magic.
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Princess Captured! love it… Suz
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It takes one to know one 😉
Thank you Suz
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It’s fun to be the child! She seems to enjoy herself. Well written.
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Yes it is, A child is so free to enjoy and explore without constraints.
Thank you for reading and commenting, it is much appreciated.
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My pleasure!
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Princess reminds me so much of my younger daughter. Well done!
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I’m makin’ bubbles and walkin’ on diamonds.Love that line
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Thank you Michael, Isn’t a happy child’s mind a wonder?
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Fantastic voice in this. Love that princesses never hurry.
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Thank you so much Sarah Ann. I have a child’s mind so it wasn’t much of a stretch! I think the last line is true…unless they run for fun, right?
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I feel sorry for this mother; she is missing so much of the magic.
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