September 2024: Let Down Your Fettucine – Athena Law
Let Down Your Fettucine
This story begins with the reassurance that they all live happily ever after. When I say ‘they’ I of course mean Rapunzel, her husband and their seven plump children. After all, one hundred years in a remote tower doesn’t bode well for a romance story. But for a while there, it didn’t look like our girl was going to ever leave her turret…
Day 36,251
Dear Diary, I am bored out of my skull. Since I ran out of embroidery projects I’ve made literally hundreds of mosaics from my toenail clippings and stuffed cushions with my belly-button lint. It’s very mindful, very demure, but all so cringe.
Day 36,297
Dear Diary, today a hot knight on a white horse totally came to rescue me! I heard him crashing through the forest and there he was, a totes rizzler — big blonde hair and a smile whiter than my mosaics. He’s coming back tomorrow with a ladder.
Day 36,298
Dear Diary, fully devastated. His ladder was way too short. He shouted to me that no one has ever said his ladder was short before, then told me to let down my hair. So I did but he took one look at it, yelled that he was gluten intolerant, and ran off into the trees. No sign since.
Day 36,524
Dear Diary, something special happened today, which I totally knew it would because it’s been nearly one hundred years since I was trapped in this bloody turret. A man came through the forest, so quiet I nearly didn’t hear him. Average looking (maybe a six) and his old horse was a drab brown. His accent was strange; he said he was from a floating city where one travels by boat. I let down my hair, which he admired and said he would be back. I totally believe him.
Day 36,535
Dear Diary, he came back! He climbed to my window holding a bunch of roses in his teeth. He kissed my hand and told me he loves pasta. I’ll keep this short because I have to pack. He’s no hottie but I’m doing it for the plot.
Day 36,586
Dear Diary, I was wrong. My new husband, Prince Antonio of Venice is a TEN.
I’m entering my gondola era.
Athena Law
Right Left Write’s September prompt was Fantasy.
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Right Left Write’s September prompt was Fantasy.