Maria's Story.

Maria Sondule has started off a round robin story that I’ve added to, and it would be nice if others were to carry it on. If anybody wants to write the next few sentences, please let me know as a comment to this post. I will then nominate the next contributor, who can post the updated story to their blog. That will avoid having multiple people contributing simultaneously. Maria’s opening is in white, and my addition in colour.

Once upon a time there lived a very attractive princess named Floosabella. However, this princess was not like other princesses because she was a frog, and she lived in a cave by the pond. One day after checking herself in the mirror Floosabella decided to go out to find a catfish that she’d heard of called Gruntanberpalot.

He was said to live a mile away in a small creek that ran off the main river. She’d decided that making his acquaintance would serve two purposes. First, he was believed to be the ugliest creature in existence, and so might reasonably be expected to regard her as a belle of the highest order; and second, he didn’t know her name, so she could make a new one up. She’d grown heartily tired, you see, of being called ‘Floosie’ by the others in the frog pond; which was why she’d taken up residence in the cave in the first place.

The moon was full as she set off through the undergrowth, and soon she spied