I Believe
Elizabeth Russell Elizabeth Russell

I Believe

I believe he will come back again

I believe this is not the end.

When flowers bloom, when Love commands

Christ will not let this time extend

And when he’s here vs. when he’s gone

the time shall flow like years have come…

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A Queen’s Marriage - Part 2
Short Story, Fairy Tale Elizabeth Russell Short Story, Fairy Tale Elizabeth Russell

A Queen’s Marriage - Part 2

Today, she sat upon her throne as upon a rock of refuge in the ocean, assailed by the pounding waves of questions and looks and simpers, and carefully, stoically, she kept her gaze straight ahead, looking neither to the right, nor to the left, nor into the eyes of any person.

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A Queen’s Marriage - Part 1
Short Story, Fairy Tale Elizabeth Russell Short Story, Fairy Tale Elizabeth Russell

A Queen’s Marriage - Part 1

She looked out her window at the courtiers filing past below, two-and-two: the wives flirting with the bachelors, the husbands ignoring their women in favor of business, and all their children neglected at home, and she shuddered. No, it was not to them she wished to show her splendor.

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