Cursed to Be a Frog

Writing prompt: You have been hexed into a poisonous frog who has to receive a kiss in order to return back to your original state. Thing is you’re a “poisonous” frog, So this task is nearly impossible.

As she falls to the ground, you sigh and castigate yourself for trying to break the curse.

It’s been 7 and a half years so far and you just don’t know how much more of it you can take. Having to live in a pond in the castle’s garden, looking at all the people who walk past, talking and laughing and you are waiting for the very rare person who can actually understand you.

You keep calling out whenever someone walks past and now and then a woman or girl will hear your voice and come closer. You keep asking them to give you a kiss to break the curse and each time they try, they collapse. Some of them have died and each time it happens you wonder why the witch cursed you with her curse.

You hadn’t even done anything to her. She was just walking past you as you were sitting near the pond and Zap, you were a frog. The first couple months were so confusing as you learned how to live as a frog and what to watch for and avoid. Luckily the curse made any animal that attacked you get sick or die.

Unfortunately this also happened to the humans who picked you up and try to kiss you.

At first you thought you needed loves true kiss to break the curse but that didn’t make any sense. The witch had simply said that you would remain a frog until you were kissed. So now each time you see someone you call out ‘Please, a witch has cursed me. I need someone to kiss me to break the curse that made me a frog. Can you please help me?’

It’s getting harder and harder to keep holding out hope that someone will be able to break this curse as every day goes past. And it gets harder and harder to remember you are a human and not really a frog. The mating season for the other frogs in the pond makes this difficult but none of their calls really sound right to you so maybe you can still keep in contact to the human part of you. But it’s so hard to keep going.

“Your majesty, we found another girl collapsed near the pond. This will be the 18th woman or girl who has been found there. Luckily she was found quickly and the apothecary was able to prevent her from dying.”

“What is it about that pond that is hurting so many women or girls or killing them? The last girl we found was the 7th who died wasn’t it? Should we destroy the pond? Will that stop the problem? I know it is part of the garden my ancestors built but this can’t go on. They call that part of the garden cursed and I am starting to think they are right.”

“We have asked all the survivors what happened and none of them have made any sense. All of them say that a frog talked to them and then they collapsed. None of the doctors, apothecaries or wise men have any idea about what could be causing it and none of the guards have heard anything strange. They simply see a girl or woman walking near the pond and stop and then they simply collapse.”

“Very well. Until we find out what is causing this, that whole garden is to be sealed off. No one goes in until I know it is safe. Lock the gates and tell the guards to not let anyone enter. We will keep it locked until someone figures out why people die or collapse in that garden. No matter how long it takes, we will find out what is causing it.”

“As you command Your Majesty.”