The troll peers out from his dilapidated bridge. He grabs handful of gravel. Throwing one stone at a time into the stream as it bubbles happily along.
“All these merry people, ruining my view! Happy they run after each other and play with dogs. Uuugghhhhh! What is wrong with these people!” He bemoans to the wind.
A bright blue Frisbee plops into the stream. The tell eyes anything near his bridge with contempt.
“Who goes near my bridge!” His deep horrible troll voice growls shaking loose pieces of concrete from above.
Suzy climbs down the side of the bridge. Her pineapple yellow dress showing a couple green stripes for her trip down. Her twin braids make her look like an eight year old doll. Her eyes are little shocked at the sight of a seven foot troll.
“Mister. Can you help me? I can’t swim and I need my brothers Frisbee back. I kind of borrowed it.” Suzy is half shugging shoulders and looking indirectly at him.
“Why should I?! You barged into my home!” The green troll eyes narrow and his twisted smile shows his yellow pointy teeth.
“You have a nice smile. I hope I can get big like you some day.” Suzy oozes cute as she talks, looking up at the troll.
“Why, maybe you will get big like me. You really like my smile?” The troll looks at her confused.
“Yes. I know I shouldn’t be here. But I get in trouble easy. I didn’t mean to interupt you, sir.” She partially turns.
“No wait. I’ll help. I’m used to scaring people. I’m not sure why you aren’t scared.” The troll smiles a normal smile.
“You’re not scary. It’s like the ugly duckling, he doesn’t know he a swan because they call him a duck. You are nice than I thought a troll could be.” Suzy smiles as the troll heads toward the Frisbee. “You should help people more. You’re really good at it.”
He smiles and helps her back up the hill.
Six months later…
The troll starts on “Pimp My Bridge”, a show to help improve the lives of trolls everywhere. Cleaned up, shaved and dressed to the nines, he’s not an ugly duckling any more.
Written as part of a challenge called Tales Weaver,details below
Coloring Outside the Lines 
Hahahahaha! Cute story, Mark! All it takes is a little kindness…
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Yep! A little kindness changes little worlds
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Yes, it certainly does!
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Hi,
I don’t know if you do challenges (or have considered them) but I’ve nominated you for the Three Day Quote challenge. Details are on my blog (https://literatureandstuff.wordpress.com).
Thanks.
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Many thanks darling. I appreciate and accept your challenge. Allow me to gather my thoughts, they are free range it may take a moment. 😉
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Aw, this was darling Mark. ( I don’t know if that’s a good word to use but it suits the little girl). I love how the troll makes a friend, maybe he’ll be happier now and the little girl won’t feel like she’s always getting into trouble,
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Come on darling, once a trouble child always a trouble child. The trouble just changes, the girl remains the same. From my experience, with them anyway.
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Yes, quite true in real-life those problems affect you for life. It doesn’t mean you can’t change, it only means, you have to become aware of your issues, and choose to act or react differently 🙂
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Anyone can change. Most people have a real hard time because they mistake change for apology
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Great take Mark…loved the idea of the troll getting all scrubbed up and transforming…..thanks so much for contributing to this weeks Tale Weaver/Fairy Tale…
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Thank you. It seemed like a good fit, just a bird of a different feather
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Oh, the suzies of this world! Love “Pimp Your Bridge” — great twist on the ugly duckling story. And, now I know what those bridge trolls look like before and after.
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Some how changing a troll seemed to make sense to me. The Suzy’s of the world learn early how to get what they want.and sometimes it hero’s ours too
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Well, it worked. I’m still struggling with my ugly duckling into a swan.
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There’s always the road less travelled…the obvious one 😉
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Ah . . .
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I have resorted to it before. Noone prepares to read anything normal.
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The road less travelled has been taken. Perhaps nobody expects the Spanish inquisition?
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We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing! Oh yeah, what is the mean ground speed of a swallow. 🐰
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Only know the air speed.
Well, I done it — I wrote an ugly duckling story. Too tired to edit, so it’s long and makes very little sense.
Poor Michael.
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Some of my worst posts are beloved! Some of my best are ignored. Of course, I also did post in “auto correct” once. So maybe it’s me 😉
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Didn’t know you could autocorrect a post — knew you could do it to a picture.
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My galaxy 7 has several features to make life easier. Meaning I have to worry about what this thing is doing to my story! It’s an evil thing, but makes for interesting posts. 😉
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