Today's #flashfiction The Axe In The Stump

“I like a room with a view.”

Humpty Dumpty* #quote

         Today's Jessica's coming over so that'll be fun, and CJ's still over so combined that should be exponential fun through multiplication yes? Hmm...well, they're both friends (Friend fun to the second power) so they're the same so that'd be exponential in that regard, but their different, so that means that'd it be normal multiplication(Jessica fun multiplied by CJ fun)...math is complicated. At least precalculus only had imaginary numbers. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Axe In The Stump

          Men lined up from all over the kingdom to give it their all in pulling the mystical Axalibur from the mythical stump. Whoever did so would be king of Hereland. Each year at the end of harvest those who could migrated to attempt to pull the weapon.

At the morning of this day a young boy from Theretown asked the Sage of The Stump, an old witch,           “Ma'am, I've always been hearing about Axalibur, but do you have to pull it out?”

         The Sage shook her head. “The rules passed down say that you just have to get Axalibur out of the stump. People have tried twisting and turning it.” The witch then remarked, “Maybe you should try that when you get older.”

         The boy then yelled, “I'll be back!”

         The Sage sighed, “Children these days, everyone watches the attempts as the stump to see if the new king is found. What if he misses it?”

         Hours passed and the line thinned. People sat for lunch and watched the magical stump, some felt that Axalibur laughed at them. Suddenly the boy rushed to the stump holding a torch. He placed the fire of the torch on the stump and the old wood went up in flames quickly. The boy kept putting his arms among the smoke from the stump he until he pulled out Axalibur. He picked up the weapon from the fire as it flopped over among the flames when the stump burned away.

       Hereland now had a new, slightly burnt king that began to stop, drop and roll.