Leave Her Alone Please

"Leave Her Alone Please" Opens with a diary-like reminiscence covering William's royal roots (which have forced his marriage to a woman he doesn't love and a lifestyle he doesn't necessarily want) and the occasion of his birthday, upon which he rejects material offerings and requests the rarer gift of privacy, asking to be left alone for a day, without the usual supervision.His wish granted, he trades his royal clothes for those of the common man, picks up some packaged goods from the royal kitchen, and journeys to the local outdoors market to sell them, where he bumps into visiting vacationer Bambi and is enchanted by her beauty. Can true love arise in the space of a breath between a royal-born man and a commoner? Leave Her Alone Please is a "short-short" story, told in some 24 pages. Any dramatic embellishment on character or theme is thus condensed into a series of quickly-evolving, fast-paced scenes that leave little space for the usual devices of character development and tension present in longer productions.An Epilogue sums up the nature and point of both stories and questions whether love should override all consequences ....