Assorted Flash Fiction Writings #2
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The Pathetic Husband
Writing prompt: You asked your wife, the queen, why she chose you out of all the suitors. She replied, “When does a female ruler ever find such a pathetic husband?”
“When does a female ruler ever find such a pathetic husband?” echoed in my mind as I watched her continue walking through the gardens of her palace.
I had finally gotten up the courage to ask this question which had been in the back of my mind ever since I was selected by her as her husband when I fell at her feet by pure accident last year.
Our Queen had been on a walk through the city to get the feel of the people and I just so happened to have been drinking at my local tavern and was walking outside a bit unsteady, to see what all the fuss outside was all about.
And it just so happened that as I did so, I tripped over a guardsman’s foot and landed on the ground right in front of the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Of course my half-drunk brain made my blurt that out as I looked up at her when the guards came rushing up to grab me and it was only her order that prevented me from spending the night in a cell.
I was jerked to my feet in front of her and I could not stop looking at the beauty in front of me and she ordered I be brought to the palace.
The next six months was a blur and not because of alcohol but because I couldn’t understand why I suddenly found myself as the fiancé then bridegroom and eventually husband to the Queen.
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