“This app’s company has no ratings and no history on The GodfathersPro.com page, so are you absolutely sure about this?” Devon looked up from his smartphone screen, where WishApp 1.0 blinked urgently for final confirmation.
“I have no doubts, only many, many regrets,” Roland lifted his chin stubbornly and nodded once, hard.
Devon shook his head, wishing his friend had chosen something else within his price range, for transformation; a running cookie, a surly beast with curling fangs, a snowy swan with six brothers or ten — even a footman changed from a tiny mouse into a stamping horse that pulled a pumpkin carriage would be better than what he’d selected to get access to a princess.
“Just accept it, Devon, because this is how I’m writing my final chapter in the Book of Love,” Roland held his breath as Devon’s nail clicked the touch screen to accept, and then sighed happily as his outline blurred, swirled, and then surged like a gushing geyser, and collapsed with a soggy pop into a small green blob.
“Good luck buddy, and let me know if she has a cute, single sister,” Devon slid his phone into his jacket pocket as the palm-sized frog hopped toward a midnight, moonlit pond, located somewhere in between the before times and the after times, in a richly verdant summer land that not even our grandparents could have imagined.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2022)
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Valley of the Trolls 
Love the modern take on the fairytale!
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Thank you!
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I liked the final sentence Best! I could visualize it 🙂
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Glad it worked — Trying to evoke that final fairy tale feel.
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Yep, you did it well!!
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Awww! Excellently executed.
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Thank you!
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Brilliant, sharp and funnily scathing!
Ah, indeed, what would our grandparents make of all this?
Loved especially: “a running cookie, a surly beast with curling fangs, a snowy swan with six brothers or ten” – hey, I know a certain duck who can slay cookies with just one quack… 😉
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What kind of quackers..erm…cookies would they be? Lol!
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Enjoyed your fairy tale. It works as well today as in the past.
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Thank you!
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I’m with the others, skillful and creative reworking of a cultural standard (never pays to try and consider the worldview indoctrinated into generations of young people). And, more enjoyable by it’s restaging in the 21st C
fun Six
an ‘lol’ burden by thoughtful appreciation
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Thanks, Clark!
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well thought out and brilliaintly executed. and real! really real
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Thank you, I though so too…once upon a time! 😉
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I hope the Handsome Frog isn’t here in France, or some chef’ll have his legs as a plat du jour!
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😂🐸Hop, Roland, Hop!!🐸😂
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Love this Liz! What a great way to update an old favourite.🐸
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Thank you, Chris!
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Neat reversal of the tale, Liz.
Go for it, Roland! No more regrets.
(I hope the princess can find timme away from her screen to spot him!)
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Maybe the cellphone slips out of her hand and plops into the pool, like the golden ball in another tale…🙄🤣
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I like that remark about having no doubts but many regrets.
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Thanks, Frank. Yes, there’s lots of feels.
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Modern day fairytale?…Yikes!, lol
Yet there’s a generation living where the app part of the story is not “strange” because, well, because!
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Can only hope that generation still knows the old tales!
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So, so clever, Liz. Loved it.
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Thanks, Doug!
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What a cute story! Really enjoyed it! xo
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