Welcome to something Five Minute Friday! Today’s prompt is: Once. FMF sends weekly writing prompt every Friday, and writers use the prompt to do a 5 minute free write. Then, we share our words with our readers and each other as part of a weekly link-up.

Once. Now, I know what you are thinking. You are thinking that this story is starting with Once upon a time, but this story is not a fairy tale. Once there was a girl. Her mom and her dad loved her, but not each other. She had many brothers and sisters, but none that she shared blood with, and so she created stories in her head and loved them just as much as the flesh and blood brothers and sisters around her. Once there was a girl, a skinny girl, an awkward girl, who ran fast but still slow who wanted to stand out but blended in, who wanted to be known but remained hidden. Once there was a girl with brown hair and brown eyes and freckles who longed for beauty and joy and always felt plain. Once there was a girl who wanted to be the heroine but didn't know how to write her own part. And now you are thinking that here is the part where her knight in shining armor comes in and rescues her from herself, from all the dragons and walls that surrounded her or Prince Charming arrives and loves her in spite of her flaws but this is not a fairy tale. Prince Charming did arrive, but with his own set of dragons and walls to scale.
This is not where her story ends, my friends. I hate to leave you with the story unfinished, but this is where my 5 minutes ended. Rest assured, in spite of walls and dragons that still come and go, our girl is living her “happily ever after.” Even so, this story is not a fairy tale.
God bless. I hope to hear the rest of the story sometime with the happy ending ๐ visting from fmf #6;
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This is lovely and relatable. And even though our lives are not fairy tales, we’re part of a beautiful story that brings us to our happy ever after.
Visiting from FMF#36
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This brought a smile to my face. What a lovely way of expressing the girl’s story! Thanks. Visiting from FMF.
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I don’t know too many lives that are lived out like fairy tales. Our lives are much more beautiful. I hope to hear the rest of the story… ๐
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Very good! I loved it! And I do want to read more! Thank you for reading my blog!
Terri #14 FMF
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I loved it! I want to read more! Thank you for reading my blog!
Terri #14 FMF
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Loved this.
Hope one day you’ll share some more of the story.
Visiting from #5
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