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    The Princess of Boring
    The Princess of Boring
    The Princess of Boring
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    The Princess of Boring

    By Alex McGilvery

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    Princess Annuetta is bored. Bored with her toys, bored with her kingdom. Nothing ever happens, except for her interrupting her father’s work with her complaints. She wants a monkey, but the servant girl, Sally, has a different solution.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCelticfrog Publishing
    Release dateJan 8, 2018
    ISBN9781775128694
    The Princess of Boring
    Author

    Alex McGilvery

    Alex has been writing stories almost as long as he's been reading them. He lives in Kamloops, BC and spends a great deal of time figuring out how to make his characters work hard at life. His two dogs, named after favourity scotch malts are a big reason he doesn't suffer as much as his characters.

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      The Princess of Boring - Alex McGilvery

      Princess Annuetta lay on the floor of her room—toys surrounded her piling up against the wall like a  great wave, covering the rug and hanging from the ceiling. 

      I’m bored, she said and shoved a giant stuffed wombat away from her. I’m bored, she said a little louder. I’m bored! she yelled as loud as she could.

      No one came to the door. The Princess heaved a deep sigh and pushed herself to her feet. She kicked a doll out of spite and picked her way to the door of her room and pulled it open.

      The hall stretched in front of her, parquet floor gleaming in the light from the many windows. She used to slide in her stocking feet on the floor. But one could only slide so many times before it ceased to be entertaining. The light from the windows that lined the hallways made dust motes dance.

      She trudged down the long hall, not bothering to look out the windows. The view never changed.

      At the stairs, she walked down the wide spiral. Her ancestors peered at her out of the paintings on the wall. They all had dull names and duller histories. Nothing interesting ever happened. They should rename this place the Boring Kingdom.

      I’m bored, she shouted down into the huge hall. A door closing somewhere below was her only answer.

      At the bottom of the stairs, she stomped across the marble floor and Persian rugs to a hall that led to another wing of the palace. Here were pictures of landscapes and beasts frozen in time by some painter’s brush. Not one dragon or unicorn or fantastical creature among them. At the very end of the hall were double doors with guards standing on either side.

      The guard on the left tightened his lips, the guard on the right rolled his eyes.

      Have you ever killed anyone? she asked the one on the right.

      No, your Highness, he

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