Photo prompt courtesy Susan Spaulding
I’d found her sitting by the side of the road in the dark.
It was the heart-wrenching crying that drew my attention towards her, she sounded as if someone had reached inside her chest, and cruelly snatched out her heart. I’d imagined that having seen so much misery in my profession, my heart would’ve turned to stone by now.
I’d thought wrong.
I sat beside her, and she narrated the entire story to me, of cruelty, followed by an evening filled with love, and then, everything being lost to her because of a cruel twist of fate.
I gently took her hand, and bade her stand. “Come with me,” I told her, “it doesn’t have to end like this.”
Barely able to walk with only one shoe, she somehow stumbled alongside me, trusting me implicitly.
A trust which I lived up to more than adequately, even if I say so myself.
The poor girl who kept her stepmother’s house, forever covered in cinders, was the glamorous princess of the land today.
Her Prince Charming had agreed to marry her….as soon as I threatened him and his father with a Breach of Promise case.
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194 words.
Written as a part of Sunday Photo Fiction – February 24, 2019, hosted by Susan Spaulding.
jagahdilmein 
Well written, I hope she will be happy 😊
She was, ever after, as per the original fairy tale 🙂
You became her Knight in shining armour and gave her away. Nice job.
Thank you so much Abhijit
Sly one!
Thank you so much Violet.
…forever covered in cinders! A delightful retelling of the tale of Cinderella. Nice one.
My SunPhoFic tale!
Thank you so much Keith
An enchanting twist. I think you would very much enjoy the play ‘Into the Woods’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Woods
Oh wow, sounds like my cup of tea definitely. I so wish we were living in London or New York, only for the theater scene…hate big cities otherwise (says someone who grew up in one metropolis and has spent almost his entire working life in another, both with population of more than 10 million)!
I think you might be able to watch it… via a link? Good luck. Maybe rent it?
I’ll definitely check. Thank you so much Jules 🙂
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Your tales remind me of the ones my father told to me as a child… though he never wrote them down. I do enjoy twists and puns!
Oh… just sort of a twist (with a word list) though not a fairy tale:
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Oh… I liked the play (I saw it when it was on a special TV show/channel a few years back. I might have seen the movie too.