SPF: Once Upon a Time

© A Mixed Bag 2011

Once Upon a Time

Words 200

It was a carefree life.

I was the pampered child, the adored sibling the student of the year.

Friends were my life and I was the life of the party.

There was no need to conquer the world – I was on top of the world.

But something – someone was missing.

Someone of my very own, someone to love, someone to care, to share…

Fate was kind.

I found the one perfect for me in every respect.

We yodeled, tap-danced and ultimately waltzed through our rollicking wedding.

I now had a kingdom of my own.

That’s when the trouble began.

Lured by the lust of a good life, I fell deeper and deeper into the trap.

A bigger house.

A bigger car.

A bigger family.

A bigger loan.

Gone were my carefree days.

All I did was work and work.

Endless cycles of earn and spend.

Earn and spend.

Earn and save – for the near and the distant future, for children and children’s children.

Chained to the grindstone, squeezed into a straitjacket I underwent transmutation.

And that is the story of how I turned from a blue-eyed boy into the fire spewing dragon king of today.

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Written for the Sunday Photo Fiction – a story in 200 words or less. Thanks to Alistair Forbes for the photo prompt and hosting the challenge. To read the other stories inspired by the prompt, click here.

 

For readers of Moonshine, here's Chapter 153

 

 

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Dahlia

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32 thoughts on “SPF: Once Upon a Time”

  6. Beautiful insight into something that has forever been ignored, the other side(men), so well put each line and each word is like a bead to make a full string…master of words!… you can lure in so welll…….

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  14. It’s such a struggle. You put them into words nicely so while he might be a dragon king but he is a king nonetheless and we all have the power to change our situation, no matter how difficult, we always have the power.

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      1. Indeed power and will goes hand in hand.

        It’s my pleasure. I love catching up on what I have missed. It’s another way to escape from real life for few more minutes. I have to tell myself to not check your blog often so that I can read it all in leisure later on.

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