The Princess and the Elephant

By Ellen Mellor

Once upon a time a baby was born to a King and a Queen. Everyone was happy to have a Prince and heir to the throne at long last.

But they were wrong, the baby wasn't a Prince, she was a Princess.

Cursed to have nobody believe her, the Princess grows up trying and failing to persuade everyone around her that she is a girl and not a b

• Language: English
• Publisher: Samarcand Books
• Release date: Oct 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781838426651

Ellen Mellor

Ellen Mellor is a trans woman who has published three books: two novels - The Long Sleep and Down Among the Yla and a collection of short stories entitled Stories From the Corner of the Room. Her third book, Ghostkin, is currently in some deep slush pile somewhere. For more details, including free excerpts and the like, take a look at her website - http://www.samarcand.co.ukEllen reads insatiably and will try almost anything although her main interests are in Science Fiction and fantasy. She also reads comic books and has a collection that is really far too large.Ellen lives in Newcastle upon Tyne and is married with one son, two cats and library that threatens to collapse in on itself and form a literary black hole.

Book preview

THE PRINCESS

AND

THE ELEPHANT

WRITTEN BY

ELLEN MELLOR

ILLUSTRATED BY

PIPER STRANGE ART

Copyright © 2021 Ellen Mellor and Piper Strange Art

All Rights Reserved

ISBN: 978-1-8384266-4-4 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-8384266-5-1 (e-book)

The day that the Princess was born was a time of rejoicing. Her parents had been trying to have a baby for a long time and they – and the rest of the kingdom – had been starting to despair. There was just one problem. On the day that she was born, the Wise Woman who presided over all royal births, deaths and marriages made a mistake. She looked at the baby Princess and, even before she had been cleaned up and presented to the exhausted Queen and her somewhat over-excited husband, had declared that they had a Prince.

That their baby was a boy.

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On the day of her naming ceremony, the Princess was given many gifts. They ranged from a thoroughbred racehorse from the Duke of Chasterleigh, who was utterly appalling at gift-giving, to a ragged stuffed elephant from a little boy named Edgar who lived in a village beside the castle. It was named ‘Edgar’ in his honour.

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