Friday April 9th, 2021

The exercise:

Write four lines of prose about: Humpty Dumpty.

2 comments:

Greg said...

I am curious as to how this came to be a prompt :)

Humpty Dumpty
The Queens of the four Kingdoms; Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty (neƩ Sleeping) and Evil (mostly reformed), had gathered in Evil's throneroom to discuss the problem with the Kingdom of the Wall.
"Succession," said Beauty, "is important, but... well, he's an egg. I can't imagine how sex would begin, let alone result in a child."
"Perhaps," said Cinderella gazing in the middle distance, "if we keep him warm enough he'll hatch?"

Marc said...

Greg - a desire to continue the odd Friday prompts combined with a song by AJR titled... wait for it... Humpty Dumpty.

Actually, I have no idea if you'll like it be here it is anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETVtZlX2kLQ&list=RDeBAHm1F4wt0&index=18

Hahaha, the image of Humpty Dumpty hatching is both hilarious and horrific.