Another lovely #writephoto prompt from Sue Vincent. If you’d like to participate, you have until Wednesday next week to respond to the prompt. Here is my response:
They say I had a glass casket. That I was surrounded by flowers, a wonder of the woods.
But the truth is far simpler than that.
After all, they were woodsmen, miners, the seven who cared for me. Men short in stature and in funds. Where would they have found the glass to make it, the gold to bind me?
Instead they made me a bed from what they knew. Timber, gift from the forest that sheltered us, carved with their axes, shaped with love. And they laid me there, sheltered by branches, leaves my coverlet, flowers my crown.
I was a princess. My rescuer, a prince. But I’d been saved long before he came along, with his lips red as the apple that had laid me low.
And so my bed of wood remains, a memorial to love and friendship.
To the seven.
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I love this perspective, Helen. x
Thanks, Sue 🙂 x
Wonderful Helen!! I really liked that!!! We did indeed think upon the same lines!
Thanks, Ritu 🙂
Nice one.
Thanks, Craig 🙂
Love this!!
Thanks, Jessica! 🙂
Nice remembrance of what those seven dwarfs contributed to the story.
Thanks, Frank 🙂
Great response Helen, I see it was a well occupied bed….
Thanks, Michael 🙂 I guess it was!
Awww, that’s lovely. I can actually picture Snow White saying that.
Thanks, Allie 🙂
Aw, Snow White. I saw this photo and thought it was such a real life fairy tale. So much magic. This is beautifully written. Love it. ❤
Thanks so much, Sarah – it was the first thing that came to me. 🙂
This is LEGIT! Please expand!! ❤ 😉
Ooh, thank you. I might, you know. I realised the other day I have quite a few story fragments kicking around now after all the prompts I’ve done 🙂
I’ve gotten some of my best work from prompts!
Me too! Current WIP came from a prompt… 🙂 Hope you’re still writing x
I haven’t been writing for a bunch of reasons but I should get back to it! Encouragement from wonderful writers like you really makes me think about it!
I hope you do get back to it – if it’s calling to you, do it! 🙂 xx
I’m glad you think so! It hasn’t been calling but i should be productive and do it!
Well, if you’re feeling it, get writing! 🙂
So lovely Helen, there is are tears in my eyes. xxx
Aw, thank you, that’s lovely (not that I wanted to make you cry!) 🙂
I will survive ☺️
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Lovely take on the prompt, Helen. I like this version of Snow White best. 🙂
Thanks, Diana 🙂 That’s very kind of you to say x
nice memorial to the famous short seven, well crafted.
Thanks, Pamela 🙂