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Just a Simple Girl
#100StoryChallenge — No26
The duke didn’t know why he was watching her, this poor maid toiling over a wishing well sodden with mud. Normally, he would have walked right past, his eyes averted, but something about the girl made him pause.
Was it how her tidy braid had almost come undone, threads of her auburn hair spilling out in a beautiful disarray?
Was it how she bit her pretty bottom lip in frustration as she scrubbed and scrubbed at the stones that refused to come clean?
The duke could have walked away.
Instead, he crept closer, wondering if she might speak to him.
This is a part of my endeavor to go back to writing tighter fiction with more stringent word counts. It’s just one attempt at the 100 Story Challenge because I thought it would be a good exercise to do to keep my imagination sharp. We’ll see how it goes.
For longer fiction, you may enjoy my stories linked below:
