Here is the first paragraph ...
THE GOLDEN KEY
Once upon a time, in the depths of winter, with snow lying in great drifts, a poor boy was sent out to bring in wood on a sledge. When he'd found all he wanted, and piled it all up, he decided - because he was so freezing cold - that he wouldn't go home just yet but would make a fire and warm himself up a bit. So he raked away the snow, and just as he was clearing a patch of earth he found a tiny golden key. "Aha," said he to himself, "where there's a key, there must be a lock," and he burrowed in the ground and discovered an iron casket. "If only the key fits!" he thought, "there's surely precious things in this box." He peered about but there didn't seem to to be a key-hole - and then, at last, he found one, but so small that you could hardly see it. He tried it, and the key fitted perfectly. Then he turned it once ...
... and here is the second paragraph:
... and now we must wait till it's completely unlocked, with the lid open, so that we can see what wonderful things are really there, lying in the casket.
And this is the end of the story. What are your thoughts?
9 comments:
there's very little i've read that holds magic as well as old fairy tales. steven
Intriguing so say the least! :-D
Curiousity killed the cat...
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Very intruging! I am curious to know what he found specifically that he so treasured. xo style, she wrote
Thank you for your comments. It certainly evokes curiosity ... and maybe a tale to be created.
Grimm's fairy tales are a constant inspiration to me.
Have you read Bruno Bettleheim's The Uses of Enchantment? A Jungian reading of the stories.
But simply as stories they bowl along without too much extraneous detail.
You should join Shadow Shot Sunday --it has participants worldwide!
ps I write children's stories.
Thank you for both the info. and comments, Elizabeth. I shall be in touch with you via your blog.
i start imagining the unimaginable! :-)
Mmm. Could be anything - delightful, weird, awful ....
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