read a story that started:
Prince Harry was shy, and it was for this reason that it is generally accepted that he ran away from home. It was well known that he had been betrothed to the Lady AnnaBarbra for some time, but without affection, and most waited for an eventual breaking of the engagement. Harry’s lack of interest in his fiancé was obvious whenever the prince and duke’s daughter went out together. Why AnnaBarbra would stick around for a boy who appeared in no hurry to marry her baffled both their parents. It also disturbed the citizens of their country, who were eager for their marriage, if only in anticipation of the free-flowing booze inevitable at wedding celebrations. So, when Prince Harry disappeared, ostensibly forever (though with royalty, who knows?) and AnnaBarbra retired to her own mansion in tears, it was only reasonable to think that the Crown Prince finally had the gumption to turn her down once and for all, and then escape himself to avoid repercussions.
But as there always are when intrigue arises, there were those looked skeptically upon the whole matter. Harry, they argued, was much too small and pliable to have turned out Lady AnnaBarbra of his own accord. So it must have been the Lady herself who had walked out. But for what reason? Something big, exciting, and scandalous had to have taken place behind those thick, cold, stone walls.
What this observant minority had failed to identify was only the magnitude of the act that had indeed taken place.
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April 23, 2009 at 10:43 am
Hi there!
I just popped over from the S&S site, and I’d say that it sounds like a good beginning to a story, to me!
Love,
Marqueta