Once Upon A Time
there lived a king and queen in a pick castle high on a mountain top. The king and queen were very happy in their little kingdom for many years. One day, however, the king and queen began to feel lonely in their pink castle on the mountain top so they asked the magical stork to bring them a little princess to keep them company.
And so, one very cold morning in winter, the stork delivered a perfect little princess to the pink castle. The king and queen were so pleased! They worshiped their little princess and gave her everything her heart desired.
Then the king and queen decided, without the princess’s permission, to ask the magical stork to bring them a little prince. The princess was very upset about this and when the stork brought the little prince on a hot and sunny afternoon one summer day, she pouted, then cried, then worried that the king and queen would forget all about her. But they didn’t and soon the princess came to love the little prince very much.
And so the little family in the pink castle high up on the mountain top were very happy for many, many years. The princess and prince grew up happy on their mountaintop, but soon became very interested in the wide valley below and the far away shining sea. The princess left first, seeking adventure across the wide valley and eventually found herself at the very edge of the shining sea. The prince then yearned for adventure and crossed the wide valley to find himself far away on a strange mountain.
Both the princess and the prince loved the king and queen very much and trekked back to the pink castle on the mountain top as often as they could to tell the king and queen of the amazing adventures and places they had seen.
But then one day, the princess climbed the mountain top to find the king and queen alone in the pink castle and very sad. The prince, it seemed, had been taken prisoner by an evil witch and would never come back to the pink castle on the mountain top!
Frightened, the princess sent many couriers and doves carrying messages to the strange mountain land the prince was held in. But the evil witch slayed the couriers and captured the doves and told the prince the king and queen and princess were bad and didn’t love the prince at all.
For awhile the prince didn’t believe the evil witch and he sent a few couriers back to the mountain top. He even traveled back to the pink castle once. But the evil witch came with him, and whispered evil things in his ear and he vowed to never go back to the pink castle again and to stop sending any messages at all.
And as the cold winter blew over the shining sea and the wide valley and snow began to fall on the mountain top, the pink castle began to crumble. The princess knew the snow would fall heavier than any year before, and blast through the cracks in the walls of the pink castle. She knew that the king and queen would cry and that their tears would freeze in the cold and only the prince, born of summer and sun could melt those tears and bring warmth to the old castle.
So she sent one last messenger dove out far across the land to try and trick the evil witch so that the message would get to the prince. And it did. And he sent a message back “you are selfish and self-centered.”
And the princess cried because she was hurt by the mean words and her tears froze by the shining sea and as she packed her bags to go back to the pink castle to tell the king and queen of her adventures by the shining sea, she knew an evil spell had been cast and the prince would never bring the sun back to the pink castle on the mountain top.
And so, one very cold morning in winter, the stork delivered a perfect little princess to the pink castle. The king and queen were so pleased! They worshiped their little princess and gave her everything her heart desired.
Then the king and queen decided, without the princess’s permission, to ask the magical stork to bring them a little prince. The princess was very upset about this and when the stork brought the little prince on a hot and sunny afternoon one summer day, she pouted, then cried, then worried that the king and queen would forget all about her. But they didn’t and soon the princess came to love the little prince very much.
And so the little family in the pink castle high up on the mountain top were very happy for many, many years. The princess and prince grew up happy on their mountaintop, but soon became very interested in the wide valley below and the far away shining sea. The princess left first, seeking adventure across the wide valley and eventually found herself at the very edge of the shining sea. The prince then yearned for adventure and crossed the wide valley to find himself far away on a strange mountain.
Both the princess and the prince loved the king and queen very much and trekked back to the pink castle on the mountain top as often as they could to tell the king and queen of the amazing adventures and places they had seen.
But then one day, the princess climbed the mountain top to find the king and queen alone in the pink castle and very sad. The prince, it seemed, had been taken prisoner by an evil witch and would never come back to the pink castle on the mountain top!
Frightened, the princess sent many couriers and doves carrying messages to the strange mountain land the prince was held in. But the evil witch slayed the couriers and captured the doves and told the prince the king and queen and princess were bad and didn’t love the prince at all.
For awhile the prince didn’t believe the evil witch and he sent a few couriers back to the mountain top. He even traveled back to the pink castle once. But the evil witch came with him, and whispered evil things in his ear and he vowed to never go back to the pink castle again and to stop sending any messages at all.
And as the cold winter blew over the shining sea and the wide valley and snow began to fall on the mountain top, the pink castle began to crumble. The princess knew the snow would fall heavier than any year before, and blast through the cracks in the walls of the pink castle. She knew that the king and queen would cry and that their tears would freeze in the cold and only the prince, born of summer and sun could melt those tears and bring warmth to the old castle.
So she sent one last messenger dove out far across the land to try and trick the evil witch so that the message would get to the prince. And it did. And he sent a message back “you are selfish and self-centered.”
And the princess cried because she was hurt by the mean words and her tears froze by the shining sea and as she packed her bags to go back to the pink castle to tell the king and queen of her adventures by the shining sea, she knew an evil spell had been cast and the prince would never bring the sun back to the pink castle on the mountain top.
posted by ldbug at Wednesday, December 06, 2006
13 Comments:
Um, yoohoo...Hey there, perfect little (hallucinating) princess. My, my what an overactive imagination you have! Please allow me to discern fact from fiction in your creative (read fabricated) little slanderous tale.
Fact: Any decent journalist gets her quotes straight. The prince's text message stated that you're "self-centered and narrow-minded"...And I believe he forgot "insecure, underachieving and delusional".
Fact: You're a sad excuse for a sister and a friend (not to mention a princess -- my God, you really are nuts!). The prince no longer speaks to the princess because she's a deceitful and malicious troll. You lied to him and your "courier friends" about his relationship with his "evil witch" girlfriend. He says you've treated him like shit his whole life.
Fact: If you were half as concerned with your own life as you are about everyone else's, you'd likely still be married and have a PhD (instead of whining about how the world's out to destroy you). You have no one to blame for your personal and professional failures except yourself -- guess the little princess isn't so perfect after all...
I've spent the past few months trying to convince the prince to be more understanding with his royal family; however, he insists they are mentally and emotionally unstable and extremely unyielding.
Gee, I never would've guessed until I read your crazy-ass, self-absorbed blog.
And, by the way, it's Dr. Evil Witch to you!
Well, I assume that's the girlfriend then? Nice way with words...
As one of the couriers who, whilst not exactly slaughtered, was certainly burned by a lot of double talk and miscommunication, I have to say he is a grown man and should probably be allowed to live his life how he chooses. There is a difference between caring and interfering.
Family stuff sucks. All you can do is live your life.
Any- it's a story, a blog. The point of the story is that a family has broken and will most likely never be the same.
Thank-you so much for your hurtful words. My divorce was one of the hardest things I've ever been through. My former mentor has been fired, not through my action, but through theirs.
I'm not a journalist, I'm just telling stories here. That's what it's for.
Tidy - I've kept my distance from him since this summer. I've just appologized in e-mail and text since then. He is living his life and hurting a lot of people in the process. I'm sorry you had to be one of them.
Jay - I haven't stopped crying in two days.
I think anonymous is a bit of an asshat! Family stuff does suck and I don't think there is a need for anon to insult people via the internet.
Adult - Aw thanks! Yes, she is an asshat. That was just an all time cruel comment from Anonymous.
As ldbug's princely brother, I'd like to set the record straight here. I'm not speaking to ldbug becuase she's a manipulative and dispicable human being. She's never even met my "evil witch" girlfriend! Not even once! She needs to stop trying to disguise her ridiculous lies as "just a story". Bullshit! She has no idea what she's talking about as usual. Perhaps she should start taking some responsibility for all the shit in her life! I'm not the person hurting our family, and until she's willing to admit how hurtful and destructive her lies have been, she's goddamn right I don't want to speak to her!
Maybe the prince should deal with the princess and her hurt feelings. Family should come first. By the way, any crack about a divorce is a low blow. Period.
Chin up, Ladybug.
Ben - I don't know what to say to you. That's a kick while I'm down to say the least.
Life - Thank you, you're a sweetheart.
Wow, I'm coming to this a little late. Tough call. I guess people see things differently, and families are notoriously hard work. Here' hoping that one way or another things can get worked out some day. Life's too short to hold grudges, but words can be hard to retract. Good luck, LDB et al.
Sorry things are tough with your brother ld. Family stuff is never easy. Hang in there!
I could see in the story the longing for your family to be together. There is nothing wrong with that. Families should be families forever. What else do we have in life? There is nothing wrong with wanting a relationship with family. Believe it! BTW, I thought it was extremely well written -
* - Thanks! Yeah, I know words can't be taken back.
molly - I will. I'll keep my distance and just have to hope one day things look up for our relationship.
pup - Actually all those e-mails came from her. I checked the site meter, and btw, my brother doesn't have a laptop!
gardenia - Thanks, yeah the point of the story really had nothing to do with her. It had to do with the breaking of a family. I wish they had realized the message. *sigh*
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