tale as old as time
 true as it can be

She turn her gaze away from the mirror she's holding. The singing  princess got her attention. 'She have a nice voice alright!'
 
 barely even friends
 then somebody bends unexpectedly

She would have come closer had it not been for the six dwarfs blocking her way. 'Six? Aren't these dwarfs supposed to be seven?' She look around and not so distant she found the missing one, mischievously playing Arielle who frantically wagging her tail. 'Poor little mermaid!'

 just a little change
 small to say the least
 both a little scared
 neither one prepared

Now that isn't the princess singing. Yes, that's the beast. He's supposed to be scary and she wondered why she was mesmerized. He's dancing Belle in all his elegance. And in one turn he isn't the beast anymore. Of course she knew the story. The curse has been broken. She knew too that the scene was crafted to appear magical but still she was caught. Caught by the scene? No, she was caught by him. Caught by that arrogant face. A face that looks hard and cruel yet still look so tender. He has that compelling eyes, she look closer and she was lost.

'What are you doing here? You're supposed to be backstage, your group is next.' The program coordinator grabbed her arm and the magic was broken.

She put her crown on, cast a haughty and wicked expression on her face and later she's on that same spot where the Beast danced with Belle, of course with different background set up this time, saying that famous line: 'mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?'

Now it's her next scene, this time disguised as poor old woman when she realized something's missing. Her apples! She remembered putting the basket of apple on a table right outside the dressing room. The basket is still there but it's empty. She glance at Snowhite singing onstage. That pale lady must have had gotten hungry in all her rehearsals and ate all her apples, she crazily thought.

Then a boy dressed as a kettle walked past her. Guess what's the boy eating? Yes, her apple! 'Hey, where did you get that?' she asked.
The boy look at her worried, maybe because the way she asked or the way she look in her disguise.
'They all got one, i thought i could get one too', replied the boy pointing to some casts of the last performance on one corner munching her apples.
She desperately glance again at Snow white. How is she going to kill her now? Should she kick her offstage instead?
'Hey, there's still one apple left.' Someone spoke from her back. She turn around and there he was. The Beast. The Prince. Now he's the knight who save an apple for her. Yes he's her knight and she's the... 'WITCH! Your turn, hurry up!'

As she walk toward the stage, she wished that the apple in her hand really have some poison. Why, she could kill that program coordinator for ruining her fairy tale today!

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Posted by emkay4597 2008-06-17 19:01:21 A Story? Did it happen that way? Either way it's a neat story. I'm curious to see what happens next. It's funny to think of these actors having an off-screen relationship when on-screen (stage) they're not supposed to be as chummy. I could see them in an old cafe after a performance in most of their costume providing double takes for all the half-lit people leaving the bars some late evening. + Report this comment
Posted by mayumi 2008-06-27 14:48:32 .... This may not be the usual scene but for this particular story, yes it did happen that way. So there, this is actually a true story. What happened next? Well, let me just say that their ending is not one of those who 'lived happily ever after'...Beast would always belongs to Belle. Thanks for ur comment :) + Report this comment
Posted by elenalda 2008-07-01 11:52:03 .... I really liked the beginning of this--it was so abstract and unexplained. In particular, the line about Beast "dancing Belle in all his elegance". The contrast between the image and the broken grammar is gorgeous. However, the same effect doesn't work a few lines later ("He has that compelling eyes") -- it clunks. I would swoon if the story continued to blur the line between actors and characters, instead of pulling down the curtain so quickly and showing us the real situation. There's something very unreal about the beginning that is jerked away with the introduction of the program coordinator, and it just becomes a story about a girl who likes a guy. + Report this comment
Posted by A.T.O.M. 2008-07-04 14:22:28 Okay the opening was great and the story just kept getting better and better as i read it so keep up the good work and don't let anyone get you down my friend + Report this comment
Posted by brandon_scott 2008-07-05 20:53:21 .... I agree with A.T.O.M. I think the story works well, because of its abstract beginning where we don't know what's going on, but all is revealed throughout the story. This was definitely good. I hope the story itself lives happily ever after... + Report this comment
Posted by indianaman130 2008-07-06 00:58:54 .... liked the concept, your verb use and grammar got sloppy at the end. what kind of play was it? You could write a short story about each charactor in the play from their point of view. + Report this comment
Posted by rtvols344 2008-07-06 17:25:06 Very Good! It was very well written!!! I LOVE acting so I can relate to this story!! I agree the grammar was just a little sloppy at the end...but yet I still LOVED it!!! + Report this comment
Posted by Zombie Punk 2008-07-06 19:01:00 .... way different then most stories. i liked it nonetheless. it had a nice flow to it. magnificant work. bravo. all that compliment stuff. so, nice job. + Report this comment
Posted by Pookerdoo 2008-07-10 05:58:22 .... This was very interesting. I liked the variation in characters, but maybee you could give more info on them. Come on they had to know the apples were for the production. Did they eat them just for fun or spite? If there was an underlying conflict that could be added to the narative. + Report this comment
Posted by philneale1952 2008-07-11 06:53:38 School This one took me all the way back to junior school and those accursed Christmas events where all the class were expected to DO something along these lines. Props going AWOL (or stolen by jealous classmates who didn't get the top roles), cues almost missed as the teacher fights frantically with the schedule. Oh yes, it all comes flooding back and everyone seemed to either forget their lines or deliberatley fluff their parts to wind teacher up a little tighter. Excellent piece of work, and I liked the use of italics to break up the different scenarios. Must remember that technique for some of my own stuff......haven't got it under patent have you? Good story. Phil + Report this comment
Posted by SageSyren 2008-07-14 11:15:13 Very good This was very good. I loved that you stuck a bunch of references to other 'Disney' tales in this. I think you could go two different ways with this if you decided to continue. Humor or thriller. With the humor you would just need to tweak a couple of things in this first part. But with thriller you've got it spot on. :) Bravo + Report this comment
Posted by CDeCarlo 2008-07-17 15:58:09 .... Its good, like a play within a story, and thats really interesting to read. I'm looking forward to reading what goes on next, and I like how the fairy tales are all mixed together. + Report this comment
Posted by colemoriss 2008-07-17 21:41:26 .... i liked this. i had some issues understanding it, but i bumped my head today, so, oh well. it was good yes. for a moment i thought it was gonna end in murder or be twisted or something. guess not. + Report this comment
Posted by Captain Morgen 2008-07-21 15:46:59 .... The idea of the story is quite good. However, I found that it could have been written a little better. There are some subject-verb agreement conflicts and some areas don't make sense unless read twice. There is definite potential here. Keep on writing :) + Report this comment
Posted by saviaj 2008-07-29 19:36:38 Hmmm... I don't get it. + Report this comment
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