Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, atop a hill up on high, there sat a massive stone castle, its lone inhabitant a handsome but imprisoned prince. But can said prince find his freedom, not to mention his happily ever after, with his winged lover?
NOTE: This story appears in Rob Rosen's best-selling collection, Short Spurts.
Fairy Tail By Rob Rosen Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, atop a hill up on high, there sat a massive stone castle. So tall was this castle, in fact, that the rooms in its loftiest tower overlooked the billowing clouds down below. These rooms, however, held but one resident, namely a handsome prince, imprisoned by the king until he was old enough to rule the land and take a mate. Sadly, for this captive prince, the age of kingship was fifty, and the prince was just shy of turning twenty-five. Half a life away from freedom, it would seem. And so, the prince, alone in his towering prison, sat at his window and miserably sighed, a lone tear cascading down his scruffy cheek. “Oh how I wish to find a mate now, and live like my people do in the land down below.” But in a castle high