Literary Lion – A Day in the Life
Just under the wire (and in a hurry), here is my contribution to Laura’s Literary Lion challenge. This week’s prompt word is “king”. Sorry there’s no photo, I’m doing this in my lunch break and don’t have time to find something suitable. So, with very little proof-reading, here we go.
A Day in the Life
It’s not easy being King. Some days it feels like the whole world and his wife is after me for something. It’s always, “Sign this, Your Majesty!” or, “The palace sewers are backed up again!” Like I’m a plumber. I’m the King, dammit! Here we go…
“Your Majesty, Drimmen’s let his cows graze in moi fields again.”
I don’t care.
“I’ll send someone over. Next!”
“Your Majesty, the milk’s turned sour. It’s witches!”
Saints preserve us.
“You left it in the sun again, didn’t you, Breevor? Next!”
“Your Majesty, my daughter’s run off with the milliner’s son! What shall I do?”
How should I know? She’s your daughter.
“Prepare for a wedding. Next!”
And so it goes on. And on. And on. Day in, day out. Don’t I have people for this? It’s not right. Ah, here comes a royal messenger.
“Your Majesty, King Matchett of Greater Gribdovia has crossed the border! It’s war!”
At last, something I can sink my teeth into. Something Kingly!
“Call my generals, sound the alarms, bring me troop…”
“Whoops, sorry, your Majesty. Wrong piece of paper, he hasn’t crossed the border after all. Just a little novelette I’m writing. Ahem. I meant to say that the royal chickens have burrowed under the wire and escaped into the woods again. What shall we do?”
Buggerit.
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Hilarious, Ali. I love that Cornish dialect. You mean it isn’t good to be king? 😀
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I’m sure he’d have a better time of it if he learned to delegate 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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A job is a job, no matter what the job is, right?
I keep reading “moi” in French, I am guessing it is not supposed to be pronounced that way? 🙂
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Yeah, even the best jobs have down sides!
It’s hard to work out how to write the correct pronunciation. It’s “country bumpkin” (i.e. my accent if I increase it). Maybe “mawee”.
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Funny how country bumpkin here is different there… I wondered if it was maybe more like moy-yee. I’m apparently the only one who didn’t get it though, so carry on 😀
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Moi…how about “Moy” ?
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Now why didn’t I think of that?
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Sounds like how it feels to be a parent, lol. Really well written, especially for lunch break material. A perfect read for this morning!
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Hee, I don’t have kids but I can imagine! I’m glad you enjoyed it, thanks for such a lovely comment 🙂
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I can see where a war would be a definite improvement. It isn’t ALWAYS good to be the king 🙂
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He’s a bit bored, poor king. I’m sure the idea of a little war in his head is far better than the reality, however 🙂
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Excellent! Love this. Don’t know how you wrote that in such a small amount of time!
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I’m glad you enjoyed it! I already had the story idea in my head which is the hard part, it was just a case of expanding and typing, which took around 15 minutes 🙂
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Awesome!
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I actually think I’d like that job…. so long as I could laugh and make sarcastic comments at the people who thought I wanted to hear them whine about their lives.
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His “inner voice” could be out loud instead. They’d soon learn to sort out their own problems!
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Those bleeding chickens. Another piece plucked from your endless imagination, well done 🙂
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You’d think (and the king would hope) that they’d’ve learned how to catch the chickens themselves by now. Poor king :-(.
I’m glad you liked it!
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This is brilliant. Very Monty Python.
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Thanks, it is a bit Monty Python isn’t it? 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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That was fun reading.
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I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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For a quick lunch job, you done good my friend. I just hope you didn’t get indigestion 😀
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No, I ate my roll and Alpen bar first!
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Hilarious! I wouldn’t want his job. 😀
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Me neither. He needs to delegate!
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A most entertaining take on the prompt! Thanks for the laughs and sharing.
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I’m glad you liked it! Being a king isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be.
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HaHaHa! It reminds me of my old (and loved) job of Nurse Manager. “Sister!” they would cry “help us, we are out of loose tea” LOL! Like the King I was paid handsomely and someone had to it!
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As long as there is sufficient remuneration!
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