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Still Broken

Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 18:25
by: 
Danielle E. Shipley

Sunset. Ursula froze where she stood, the sight through the window enough to take the young queen’s breath away, even as its beauty went unnoticed.
Statue-stillness turned to trembling, limbs tingling in anticipation of the old curse’s pain.
Pain that did not come.
“Sula.”
She turned, and there he was – the doctor come to heal her magic-scarred spirit; the king come to help her rule over her fear; the heart-mate come to re-break the sunset’s spell with love.
He placed himself between her and the window, and held her, erasing sunset. And Ursula knew again that she was saved.

Author Bio: 

Danielle E. Shipley lives somewhere between that ambiguous Illinoisan area known as “Chicagoland” and the scenic realm of imagination, and is most easily found on her blog: http://everonword.wordpress.com. Her short story, “Along for the Ride”, is slated to appear in “A Cuppa and an Armchair”, a collaborative venture joining writers and the charity, Equipe, to be released Christmas 2011; as-yet-unpublished work includes the reverse-urban-fantasy novel, “The Ballad of Allyn-a-Dale”, and the multi-fairytale-inspired series, “The Wilderhark Tales”.