The toad is -- well, not dead, since it was never really alive, or (for that matter) a toad.

But the crafty thing is revealing that the heroine is going to suffer quite a lot after her victory.

And here I thought it wasn't even very important in the plot.

Stage-Land by Jerome K. Jerome

A work in which Jerome scores off the stereotype of theater in his day. Those who have read Three Men And A Boat will recognizes the style and humor.

This week's prompt is:
wonderful 🌟

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.

A minor comment in the outline, how the heroine got the attention of the wizards.

But it wasn't detailed enough.

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The Iron Marshal by Louis L'Amour

An Irish boy grows up in New York -- and has just landed in Kansas.

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Flint by Louis L'Amour

A man who left the West, and the fame he won in one shooting, to grow rich in the East, returns to the West.

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Tucker by Louis L'Amour

An tale of adventure.

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