No Happy Endings
Here is my contribution for Barbara Beacham’s Mondays Finish the Story.
We get a photo and a starting sentence and then 150 words on top. It appears to be fairy tale time this week, so that’s what I’ve written! Thanks to my rather odd sense of humour, my story makes me laugh. Ha ha.
To read this week’s other stories, click on the blue froggy. The supplied sentence is in bold in my story.
Copyright Barbara W. Beacham
Once upon a time in a land far, far away there lived a pixie called Mike. Pixie Mike.
All the other pixies made fun of him. They all had cool pixie names while Pixie Mike was stuck with “Mike”. Floats With Flowers, Runs With Unicorns and Sleeps With Fairies never stopped taunting him.
Pixie Mike was very upset.
One day a great evil came to Pixie Land and all the other pixies ran to hide. Pixie Mike saw his chance to save Pixie Land! The other pixies would never make fun of him again. All he had to do was cross the Chasm of Terror and retrieve the Orb of Light.
He stepped tentatively onto the bridge and inched across. “I’m going to make it!” he thought.
But halfway across he slipped, fell into the chasm and broke both his legs. Because real life’s not a fairy tale. Bad things happen.
And nobody lived happily ever after. Especially not Pixie Mike, who finally got his pixie name. Stumbles and Splatters.
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nice one
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Thanks 🙂
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Very entertaining Ali! I loved your pixie tale! Thank you again for participating! Be well… ^..^
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You can’t go wrong with pixies, I always say 🙂
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Hee hee!
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Or he could have learned to play bass and joined The Pixies instead.
(I’m fighting allergies, just pretend that was a witty comment, OK?)
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I looked them up! Maybe drummer would be better since he broke his legs 🙂
I hope the allergy fight goes okay. Allergies suck 😦
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Oh.. why did he fall down? but stumbles and splatters is another funny name!
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He’s just clumsy I think. So his new pixie name will suit him!
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Ouch! Oh shit, that was funny.
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I’m glad you share my sense of humour 🙂
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I’m rather morbid. 🙂
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Me too 🙂
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Oh! You’re such a spoil sport! LOL! It was terrible! But I laughed. :D:D
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Yeah, poor Mike ha ha 🙂
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Yes, poor guy didn’t even have a chance! 😀
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Funny. I liked the sarcastic wit of your story!
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I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Congratulations , Mike. Your nickname is well-deserved. Maybe, just well-earned? Be careful what you wish for!
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Not quite the pixie name he was hoping for.
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This is one of my favorites.
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And there I was thinking this was going to be another fairy tale, and then smack! I really enjoyed this story.
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It started badly for Pixie Mike and only got worse 😦
Glad you liked it!
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OUCH! I was rooting for Mike.
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You backed the wrong pixie!
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If Pixie Mike only broke both of his legs, then I say the Chasm of Terror isn’t deep enough!
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I did have a whole list of injuries but I was slightly over the word count as it was 😦
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Stupid word counts… always keeping the good stuff out of flash fiction stories!
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Yeah, imagine the gore I could’ve introduced with just 20 or 30 more words…
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Great story. Good example of …sometimes you are better off with what you already have. Things can always get worse….or, better.
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He definitely should have just run off with all the other pixies.
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Poor Pixie Mike!
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He’s not having much luck, is he?
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Poor Stumbles and Splatters.. hope that wasn’t all his blood from his snapped-off legs that turned the chasm of Terror red? Great evil won then I take it? Another awesome contribution – loved it 🙂
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I have an awful feeling that is where all the red came from 🙂
I did feel bad about great evil winning, but I didn’t have enough words left for anyone to do anything about it.
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Terrific story Ali ~ It makes a change to all the unrealistic happy endings ~ You win some you lose some ~ I guess this is why fairies grew wings 🙂
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I’m glad you liked it!
I thought a more realistic ending was in order, and I don’t like to write obvious endings anyway. Sadly, pixies are rather lacking in the wing department 😦
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A very twisted fairy tale! Poor Pixie Mike – or should I be calling him Stumbles and Splatters now? Great story. 🙂
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He earned his Pixie name, you have to use it now 🙂
I’m happy you enjoyed my story!
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No sugar for lemonade.
Folks need to learn to work together.
Thanks for stopping by my piece on the prompt.
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Yeah, all the pixies together might have stood a chance. Thanks for reading!
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Deep and very funny! 😀
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Glad you liked it 🙂
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Very funny…hilarious…poor pixie mike..but I like his name..please tell him this.
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I’ll let him know!
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This made me laugh, well done, sometimes what we wish for can be worse than what we have.
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That’s often the case, I’ve found. “Pixie Mike” wasn’t really so bad, now, was it…?
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Ali, I should have expected something like that, but I didn’t. Silly me. Those pixies are a disappointment. I thought they were magic or something. I guess some of them are nasty. At least Mike was a nice guy…er pixie. 😀 — Suzanne
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Maybe they ran out of pixie dust. That’s the only explanation!
Pixie Mike’s a lot nicer than a lot of the other pixies. There are bullies in every culture.
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What a funny story, but I was kinda sad =)) Nicely done!
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No happy ending for Pixie Mike or Pixie Land 😦
I’m glad you liked it!
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I read your story when it first came out, I couldn’t comment. I still don’t know why.
I adore your gore, your writing style and subject matter. I don’t care about his legs, kinda’ funny.
Wonder what it is about this story or writing that bothers me?
Just sharing.
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Maybe its because pixies are supposed to have fairy tale endings.
There were originally going to be more injuries but I ran out of words.
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Life’s not easy for a Pixie named Sue. Or whatever.
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🙂
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