The Plaid Adder (Democratic Underground): After the Ball

From Democratic Underground
Dated Wednesday August 4

After the Ball (A Fairy Tale with a Happy Ending)
By The Plaid Adder

Once upon a time in a rich and prosperous kingdom, there lived a young woman named Cinderella. Actually, that was just what her evil stepfather called her - as in, "Cinderella, wax my Hummer! Cinderella, bring me porkchops! Cinderella, authorize the use of force against King Heinous of Womdyland!"
She herself didn't think much of her stepfather. He had married Cinderella's mother when she was a healthy, happy single woman with a good-paying job, and in four short years that man had turned her into a hard-drinking, paranoid harpy with too many guns and a mouth like a sewer.
So she tried not to answer to Cinderella if she could avoid it. She told her friends to just call her Blue.
As much as she hated watching her stepfather squandering her mother's resources, she hated her stepbrother more. Red could do no wrong; he was always swaggering around the house like he owned the place, treating everyone like dirt, and then going out all night to spend the family's money on expensive debauches with his rich friends. Any time Blue went to her stepfather for money, he would rant about entitlement and fiscal responsibility and tell her to go get a job.

As an affectionado of folk tales, I particularly enjoy this one.

I especially liked Johnny the Zealot & Rummy the Wack! Let's hope Princess Swingvoter sees the truth before it's too late.

Fan-fucking-tastic!
Encore!
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and Rummy the Wack was starting to giggle and play with his electrodes.

Hey, I'm a published novelist, and I'm impressed. Read this or be square!

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