Creative Writing Assignment
Creative Writing Assignment
“Grandpa! Grandpa! Tell me a goodnight story! Please!”
“Its time for you to be in bed isnt it?”
“Just tell me one story and then Ill go to bed.”
“Well alright, but then straight to bed.”
“Okay, grandpa.”
“What story are you going to tell me?”
“The story of how King Frances came to be king.”
So you want to know the story of how the story of how King Frances became king, heh? Well, that theres a very complicated story. But if you think you have the patience, then okay, Ill tell you.
It all started in November. I believe it was the fourth, you see, King Tenenbaum, Francess uncle, had only a year ago married Queen Andrea. This day, I believe it was a Thursday, she was bearing their first child. His name was to be Stewart and the Soothsayer Dothan pronounced him to be the king of Coventry Cove. Dothan also said that when Stewart was 15, both King and Queen Tenenbaum would be killed by the towns power hungry leading knight Sir Bargemate.
King Tenenbaum, nervous as usual, paced between Andrea and her sister Winnies room, who was also in labor at that time. Winnie gave birth first to a healthy baby boy named Frances. Then came Andreas son Stewart. Fifteen years went by and on Stewarts birthday just as Dothan prophesized, Sir Bargemate killed Stewarts parents. No one ever figured it out. But I knew. I always knew. Of course, he tried to have Stewart killed but the smart young man got away. As for Frances, he decided he would become a knight for King Bargemate.
Stewart went to the near-by town