The Princess Most Smart and Beautiful Contest

ellyn bell
3 min readNov 18, 2020
Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash

In the early decades of the 21st century, when the free people of the world wanted to become subjects of a powerful monarch or TV personality, the cataracts of confusion fell upon even the clearest eyes. It was a time when even previously sensible people doubted all sources of information except the wild-eyed, crazy-haired madmen of the internet realm who had access to a camera and microphone, but nothing else.

The Princess, Most Smart, and Beautiful Contest could usually bring calm to the masses, but in this time and place, the contest itself and its previous winner were part of the global problem. The princess had lost her beauty contest but refused to let go of her crown. This had never happened before and threatened massive chaos throughout the land.

She smacked her lips together to seal in the deep pink color and then pressed them to a toilet paper square to ensure there wouldn’t be bleeding of the color onto the skin around her mouth. She took such pains to retain her fading beauty. Year after year, she’d entered the Miss Princess Most Smart and Beautiful Contest and she’d finally won the biggest prize. While the supreme leader and holder of the title, she taunted and made fun of others and underestimated things that hurt her loyal, as well as disloyal subjects.

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ellyn bell

servant of social good; practical mystic; making kindness and good manners popular again.