Angst, Fluff, and Inferno

[scribble_myname]

This entry is part 48 of 51 in the series 365 Challenge
Let's take the third first. Overhauling the story from inferno, aka "Dowse and Bleed," left me feeling drained and exhausted, but it's out to beta and may she not find any more structural issues that need addressing. For that matter, may I not!

On angst: I write a lot of it. I know that. I've

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Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Once There Was a Princess

[scribble_myname]

A/N: Going to use the temporary name I’ve given Shift’s daughter, but I’m still all in the swithers about what’s it going to end up as.

“Mom.”

Shift paused in the doorway, hand still on the switch.

Seven-year-old Anna sat back up in bed. “Can you tell me a story?”

Shift laughed as she turned on the light and came back over. “One that isn’t about the princess going to sleep?”

“A long one,” Anna agreed. “Where the princess stays awake and goes on adventures.”

Shift snuggled Anna under one arm. “You know what? How about you tell me a story.”

Anna hesitated for a moment. “Once upon a time,” she finally said, “there was a princess who got lost, but the queen went after her…”

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Once There Was a Princess

[thecatisacritic]

I like that she asked her daughter for a story.

Of course, then I start thinking about Shift and fairytales and... then it loses a bit of fluff, but this moment is nice.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Once There Was a Princess

[scribble_myname]

I wasn't expecting her to turn around the question, but she did and I liked that.

The history is so dreadful, but there is a lot of sweet stuff later on, so that's nice.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Once There Was a Princess

[thecatisacritic]

It was nice.

It is. It's good to know there is... dawn after the darkness, as it were.