Storytelling Writing Challenge
Aug. 2nd, 2006 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mistressmaryquitecontraryFor Star's writing challenge:
I know that story. I thought everybody knew that story. It is about a girl who is a servant, except she is not really a servant; she is really their step-sister. And they do not pay her and they hit her and are awful to her. If I were her I should have left. I expect she was afraid.
She did not have a mother or an Ayah or anything, and her father of course did not care. But she did have a fairy godmother, and that is almost like an Ayah except better because there is magic and because they are not around all the time, but only when you want them to be. And there was a ball and they were not going to let her go, and then they told her she might but of course they were not going to let her really. It was only so they could laugh at her.
But then the fairy godmother gave her a dress and glass slippers and a pumpkin coach and mouse horses and lizard footmen so she could go. I do not think they can have been very comfortable, any of it, but especially not the slippers, and it must have been awful for the mice and the lizards. And it could not have helped the pumpkin to grow, to be rode about like a coach. I did not think much of it before I knew about growing things, but it was awfully selfish of her to do all that only so she could go to the stupid ball. But then the stupid prince fell in love with her and she had to marry him, and it served her right.
Though she was wearing a mask, and so he could not recognize her, but he said he would marry her anyways - I would not marry anyone if I did not even know what they looked like; they might look like a monster or anything - and then she left one of her glass slippers behind because it was so hard to walk in and he made everybody try on the shoe to see if it fit. And it fit her and they got married.
And when I read it the story said they lived happily ever after but I do not know if they did really. They were neither of them very sensible; and anyways people always write stories to end happily ever after but really they hardly ever do.
I know that story. I thought everybody knew that story. It is about a girl who is a servant, except she is not really a servant; she is really their step-sister. And they do not pay her and they hit her and are awful to her. If I were her I should have left. I expect she was afraid.
She did not have a mother or an Ayah or anything, and her father of course did not care. But she did have a fairy godmother, and that is almost like an Ayah except better because there is magic and because they are not around all the time, but only when you want them to be. And there was a ball and they were not going to let her go, and then they told her she might but of course they were not going to let her really. It was only so they could laugh at her.
But then the fairy godmother gave her a dress and glass slippers and a pumpkin coach and mouse horses and lizard footmen so she could go. I do not think they can have been very comfortable, any of it, but especially not the slippers, and it must have been awful for the mice and the lizards. And it could not have helped the pumpkin to grow, to be rode about like a coach. I did not think much of it before I knew about growing things, but it was awfully selfish of her to do all that only so she could go to the stupid ball. But then the stupid prince fell in love with her and she had to marry him, and it served her right.
Though she was wearing a mask, and so he could not recognize her, but he said he would marry her anyways - I would not marry anyone if I did not even know what they looked like; they might look like a monster or anything - and then she left one of her glass slippers behind because it was so hard to walk in and he made everybody try on the shoe to see if it fit. And it fit her and they got married.
And when I read it the story said they lived happily ever after but I do not know if they did really. They were neither of them very sensible; and anyways people always write stories to end happily ever after but really they hardly ever do.
