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STORY STARTER
Submitted by A.Brosien
A princess has been waiting in her tower for her Prince Charming to save her. But after 30 years, enough is enough, and she decides she's going to save herself.
Continue the story... (you could take this prompt more metaphorically, and write in any genre that fits the theme!)
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Waiting’s all I do. Every single day. It’s been thirty years that I’ve been trapped. It does get pretty lonely and tiring, though I do enjoy my own company. If I was around people and social rather than being alone constantly I doubt I’d have anytime to be with myself and my own thoughts. It’s getting to a point where I can’t wait anymore. I’ve decided to escape on my own, I don’t need a stupid pr...
30 years. 30 YEARS. I’ve been celebrating my birthday in this tower, alone, for 30 years. I’ve read every book in this tower not once, but twice. I’ve made every recipe I have had the ability to make, I’ve mastered painting, instruments, writing, crocheting, everything I could master in this damn tower so I did not go insane. I promised myself last year “If I’m not saved from this tower next year,...
Part One
The view from my tower is pretty enough, but it never pleases me anymore. I stopped enjoying it about ten years ago. Still, it’s a welcome break from the stone prison I’m trapped in. If it weren’t for this old tower, I would have been out of here years ago. Or I could have been, if things happened like they were supposed to. But my prince never came.
I now get fed up with seeing the ou...
WARNING: themes and relations to suicide.
She has forgotten her name, her parents, her birthday.
She has waited for 30 years. But she could not feel the time, she did not age.
She is still 19. Young, beautiful.
And yet her past has slipped through her fingers, flying away like a dead leaf as it soars into oblivion.
She grabs a long knife, and chops off her hair. Thick golden locks fall to th...
“Shoo! Shoo!” I shout at the mouse as it scampers around the circular room. After thirty years I’ve learned that singing has a much lower success rate than the stiff bundle of sticks on your broom.
Finally, the grey flash of fur scampers to a thin opening between the stone walls and wooden floor. I followed that trail once, in my 15th year, I attached a thin metal teaspoon to a piece of twine slo...
"Hello? Is anyone up there?"
Stupid boys. Always trying to hide here or save some foreign princess. I use my gruff man voice.
"Leave me and my 27 cats alone, you hobo!"
I peek from the window and see the boy's face change. He is frozen, unable to move. Then makes a run for it. Serves him right! Trying to save me and whatnot. The only boy I would allow to save me is someone who can stand up to my...
Sometimes it feels like I’m never going to make it.
At school I watch everyone around me move on with their lives. Love, heart break, and everything in between.
But not me I’ve been waiting for someone to talk to me, to notice me.
Honestly I feel like a princess, waiting in her castle. Brushing her hair in front of a mirror wearing her fanciest dress hoping that for just one night she’ll feel so...
I huffed, blowing away a strand of hair.
I’ve been stuck in this stupid castle for the longest time and no prince or knight wanted to rescue me.
I glanced at the sleeping dragon, I have to do everything myself.
As the sun crept up, I grabbed the nearest sword. The dragon roared,
I screamed back, bearing the sword the way all the other knights have.
———
I stared the corpse. Blood covered my hair an...
My scratched knees glisten in the sunrise.
Long was the night,
Cruel was the dream,
Far is my safe place.
My bruised elbows pierce the peaceful air.
Hard was the fight,
Strong was my scream,
Lost is my grace.
My burning lips bite through the icy river.
Small was the light,
Harsh was the beam,
Sad is my face.
My reckless heart is singing hymns of glory.
Gone is my knight,
Cold, unredeemed,
Was...
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