Just some rambling and a story.

I'm tired.  This is going to be a simple post.  As my faithful reader will know, I want to be a writer.  It would be nice to be a self-supporting writer, but really I would be pretty happy with a few published pieces.  This is a children's story that I wrote a few years ago.

The Self Rescuing Princess.

The Princess was not your normal, typical everyday princess.  She liked dresses, horses, the color pink and ballerinas.

The Princess could not always wear dresses, ride horses or practice her dancing.  She had to work, even princesses have to work.  She could wear pink but it would get covered up and real dirty real quick.  She had to feed the animals, muck out the stables, pick fruits and vegetables from the garden, and fix things.  When she was finished whatever she wore would be various shades of yucky and very stinky.  That is why she did not wear pink.

One day the Princess decided this was too much work.  She wanted to be rescued.  Everyday after her work was done instead of practicing her dancing or riding a horse she built a tower.

Then one day it was finished.  She went to the top and waited for her prince to rescue her.

The prince never showed.

Even though the Princess did not do her work it still needed to be done.  The stables needed to be cleaned, the garden was overrun with weeds and worst of all, no one rode or fed the horses.  The horses were very sad and hungry.

From high up in her tower the Princess saw the dirty stables, the overrun garden, and the sad horses.  She had to fix things but she could not leave her tower until she was rescued.

The Princess did the only thing she could think of.

She rescued herself.

She tied her sheets together and climbed down her tower.  The Princess had work to do.  She fed the horses, mucked out their stables and pulled all of the weeds from the garden.

When she was done she put on her prettiest pink dress, practiced her dancing and rode her horses.

The Princess thought about how happy her horses were from what she did and how happy she was and realized she did not need a prince to rescue her, because she is

A

Self

Rescuing

Princess.


Yes, I've sent this out to various agents and the silence is deafening.  I'm still trying though.  I wrote this because one of my daughters said how she is waiting for a prince to rescue her.  Nope.  My daughters will be able to rescue themselves.