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Thank you for your consideration. -------------------------------------------------------- Potted Fairy Tales : Cinderella by Lor Oldmann (alasder@planet-save.com) *** An investigation into the unlikely stories that make fairy tales so popular at Christmas. (fantasy, rp) *** The Cinderella fairy-tale is universal. By the time the Grimm brothers told their version of the story, it was already centuries old in China, India and West Africa. There was almost certainly an Assyrian tale similar to it contemporary with the Epic of Gilgamesh - there are even traces of such a tale in the Epic itself. There are recognizable parallel elements in the Esther/Ruth narratives of the Old Testament. 'The wife of an exceedingly rich man fell mortally sick, and when she felt that her end was rapidly approaching she summoned her only daughter to the deathbed. "Always, above everything else, be a virtuous child," she instructed the girl, "for I shall be looking down from heaven and shall be watching over you." Shortly afterwards, the woman died and was buried with loving ceremony in a favorite corner of the garden. The little girl went every day to the grave where she wept and placed flowers, and remembered her dear mother's advice and was kind and courteous and good to everyone around her.' This is how the brothers Grimm start their account of Cinderella. Now, I don't want to knock morality or ethical instruction of the young. But it can hardly be morally right to take a genuine original thought, preserved in the form of a fairy tale, to knock the shit out of it, to squeeze it dry of any individuality and realism, simply to make it do a job for which it was never intended. This is exactly what the prudish Jakob Ludwig Carl and his brother Wilhelm have done for posterity. But it is not entirely their fault. For the story of Cinderella lost its virginity, so to speak, as soon as it came into contact with the Christian world, first in Byzantium then in Rome. And once it was sanitized to suit Christian sensibilities, it was knocked unconscious, stripped, ravished, then anointed with sweet balm, reclothed in shining raiment and let loose on an unsuspecting public. In the original story there is no golden slipper, no prince charming and hardly any fairy godmother! The story as we find it in the original Arab collection of tales by Scheherezade (omitted for some obscure reason in the Richard Burton translation) is a rehash of the sterile Christian version suitably subjected to further grievous bodily damage to suit Moslems. As a matter of fact, Cinderella was a spoilt little upstart. She looked down on the other kids in the neighborhood and treated the servants in her parents' household abominably. Because the family was rich, seriously rich beyond the dreams of 99.9% of the people who shared the planet with them, they thought they were above the law. Consequently, when Cinderella committed a felony or a criminal misdemeanour, which was every other week, the family name alone was more than powerful enough to wriggle the brat free of any legal proceedings and punishment. The little bitch was selfish, greedy, acquisitive, noisy, totally insensitive and ungrateful for anything that was done for her, indescribably rude and ill-mannered. But like most little bitches who are in possession of most of these characteristics, as in Hollywood or Bollywood, she was an extremely good- looking little bint. There was never any lack of suitors after her hand, for in those dark, far-off days kids were married off as young as ten, and if marriage were to be delayed until a girl was eighteen people began to wonder what the hell was wrong with her. The most beautiful woman in history, Nefertiti of Egypt, married her brother or cousin when she was in her eleventh year, and Roxanne, the fiery Sogdianan princess became the wife of Alexander the Great when she was nine or ten. This last marriage was a surprise to everyone, not least to the grooms many boy-friends! Aisha was contracted to marry the Prophet when she was six, and their marriage was consummated when she was nine. When the future king of England, Edward I, married Eleanor of Castille when she was eight, it was written into the nuptial contract that he would not engage in full sexual intercourse with her until she was thirteen, and it is a well-attested fact of history that the Hammer of the Scots kept his word in everything! Absolutely everything! So, Cinderella had many suitors! So? Well, it has to be said that most of these suitors, well, all of them except one, were only after one thing - the fortune than went with her. She was definitely not an ugly bitch, and there would be no difficulty in taking it to bed and having a good fuck. But there was no possible way that what she had between her legs could make up for her foul temper and her egomania. Only one man, Buttons, was willing to overlook all her faults just to get under her knickers; he was even prepared to do some really hard work on finding a good trait among all her evil failings. Now you know what kind of people we are dealing with; they were all evil bastards. Except Buttons - he was a fruit cake! Cinderella lived in this little word of self- gratification until she was fourteen, and her father decided it was time that she got married. The girl had no intention of marrying anyone but the richest in the land - she was far too fond of her creature comforts to intend otherwise. And since it was a period of great affluence in the world's history there seemed little problem in securing a suitable match. Indeed, one was made with the oldest son (hence heir) of a family that was even richer that her own, and the engagement was announced at a party that would easily have put the worst excesses of Nero's orgies to shame for their niggardliness. It was at this party that what has to pass for a fairy godmother appeared. Out of keeping with the rest of the guests, she wore white rags. She told a rather pointless story about the lion who married a leopard; the marriage was doomed from the very start because, said this old hag, the lion roared and the leopard was spotty. And while the assembled guests were trying to work out what the hell that was supposed to mean, the fairy godmother screamed laughter and disappeared in a puff of smoke. It was shortly after this, before the actual marriage date had been arranged, that tragedy struck. First of all, there was a downturn in the economy and millions of gold pieces were wiped off the stock market. The price of gold, silver and bronze went through the floor, there was mass unemployment, unprecedented flooding, the harvests failed, there was hyper- inflation, general unrest among the plebeians, and the land where Cinderella and her folks lived went steadily to the locusts. But troubles such as these never come alone. Cinderella's father drank heavily to numb the effect of his losses on the stock market, he became a bit over- zealous with his latest girlfriend, who was a familiar entertainer and society celebrity, and put her in the family way. There was nothing at all unusual in that, people did it all the time, but not as the father of poor Cinders did it - in a public thoroughfare at the busiest time of day. Eyebrows were raised and allegations whispered when the pregnant broad was found dead in her sprawling mansion on the other side of town, and Cinderella's father found it prudent to disappear for a time. The family name had lost much of its magic. Then her big brother was involved in a similar piece of scandal with an under-age kid (and in those days that was saying something!) whom he had also made pregnant. The conception was not quite so public, but it was in the bicycle shed during the elementary school prom. By a strange but predictable coincidence, as the brother was taking the kid to a doctor who specialised in childhood complaints, his horse accidentally slipped as they were crossing a river in flood. Both the brother and the little girl were plunged into the foaming deep, and try as he would, by another odd coincidence, he could not save her from drowning. He survived. And the horse! And it could not have happened at a worse time, for the power of the family name had worn so thin that people started to snicker and scoff if any mention was made of it. There was an outcry, and a demand for a fair trial with a public hanging at the end of it. So Cinderella's brother joined his father in obscurity. So Cinderella was left on her own with a house to look after and bills to pay and no money to pay the servants' wages; so the butler and the chauffeur and the chamber maids and scullery maids, the cooks and the gardeners all found jobs elsewhere, where they could actually get hard cash in return for their labor. Bit by bit the dust gathered, the cobwebs thickened, the roofs leaked, the rats and the mice nibbled at what little food remained. She made several attempts to contact her fiance, but she found that every time she visited his family they were always away on holiday or on business and never left a forwarding address. It was at that critical moment in the narrative when things just couldn't get any worse for Cinderella, they did! She had taken to living in the kitchen/scullery/wash-house among the rats and mice and cockroaches where before, in the good old day, the humblest of the servants shacked down, huddling close to the fires for some warmth and looking for scraps of food left over from the frequent banquets. Now there was very little warmth and no banquets. Suddenly, in the midst of her feeling sorry for herself, there was a knock on the door leading to the back alley where all the rubbish was put and where the poor hungry beggars used to come in the vain hope of finding a crust of bread. She peeped out and saw some of the former servants. "Ah, good! They have taken pity on me and have come to serve me and minister unto my needs." The poor bitch was still living in a fantasy fairy tale world of make- believe. It did not strike her as unusual that they were all hunky males who were outside the door and the fumes penetrating the woodwork were alcoholic rather than charitable. "I shall let them in and forgive them for their abandonment of me." Boy! Was she to learn the meaning of abandonment! Once inside the house the men pretended to make obeisance to her as they went through the motions of deep curtseying, bowing and scraping. They kissed her hand daintily, and her feet, which she considered rather impudent and improper. They danced around her and sang rather naughty songs. It finally penetrated her calloused brain that their intentions were not entire altruistic, nor were they honorably respectful when one of the men slipped his hand inside her shabby dress and began to maul her tits. Another guy kissed her on the mouth and filled her maw with tongue, while a third hauled up her skirts and licked her pussy. When she finally understood what was happening, she protested with flailing arms and legs and tried to wriggle free. The biggest of the assailants, a man who had previously been the family coachman, gripped her throat and smashed a fist into her face. She lost consciousness. He lifted her and threw her across the kitchen table. He ripped the remnants of her clothing away form her front. "Now, who'll pay me a copper or two for the privilege of popping this little cherry?" He laughed like Jasper in a school melodrama. "We'll start the bidding at..." "Get lost!" rejoined one of his companions. "Like her cherry! She lost it years ago when she was eight to Prince.. Prince.What was his name? It's on the tip of my tongue. Prince! "Charming!" exclaimed another intruder. "These rich buggers ain't got no sense of right and wrong." He wiped the slaver from his toothless jaw. "Let's just fuck her!" And so they did. Cinderella lying across the kitchen table was cruelly violated and each man in turn emptied the day's production of semen into her aching void. One man, after the second round, went to the door and whistled for the dogs of the district to come and share the goodies. Poor, poor Cinderella lost consciousness again and again and woke up with the breaking of the new day. Amid the cold ashes in the fireplace, she wept for the glories that were now long gone, and for the burning pain between her legs and in her belly and her butt. Now Buttons enters the story, and the kitchen basement. The nut had always fancied the ill-mannered little tart, and even forgave her frequent jibes and insults whenever he had tried to be friendly in the distant past. In a kind of joke she once told him that she could never marry him because he was not nearly rich enough even to pay for her face rouge. She told him to go away and make himself the richest man in the world. And, being the nut he was, he did exactly what she commanded - for her wish was his command, and all that shit! He now took Cinderella in his arms and kissed all the sore bits. Much more importantly, for her, he paid off all her family debts, refurbished the house, bathed her in scented oils, dressed her in the finest silks and gave her the sweetest and most expensive foods, and asked for her hand in marriage! Of course she agreed instantly. Christ! What the fuck do you think she would do? So they were married right away, since the laws of the land were not quite so strict in those far-off days. A funny thing happened during the wedding festivities: this old crone appeared from nowhere in a puff of smoke and told a rather silly story about a lion that would marry a leopard (she had a limited repertoire) then laughed hysterically and went, as she had come, with a wave of her wand and in a puff of smoke. The guests were too pissed out of their minds to notice; at best some of them thought it was part of the cabaret and dismissed it as a second rate rubbishy turn. They applauded, however, when Buttons carried his bride off to the bridal chamber for the traditional three days and three nights of mad passion. He had her: back, front and sideways. To quote a certain Roman historian (referring to a certain emperor's wife): if she had had more orifices, he would have had them too! He surfaced to smoke the odd joint before getting on with the business of being married to one really hot bitch. Now, after all that she had been through, we should not be surprised if the girl had learned from her experiences and had decided to be a dutiful wife and a considerate mistress to her servants. But this is the story as it was told long before the Grimm brothers got their clinically sterile fingers on it. The fact is, once restored to power, Cinderella became ten times worse than she had been before. She beat the hell out of the weaker servants, she complained about everything and everyone, and appreciated nothing that was done for her. But having acquired a taste for cock after that gang bang in the kitchen, she started spreading it around. She slept (or rather she didn't get a wink of sleep) with the butler and the other menservants, their sons and brothers and fathers, the butcher (who knew quality meat), the mailman, any Tom, Ted or Harry who had a dick! She also had a liking for those boyfriends with dogs! And all this time Buttons thought of himself as the luckiest man in the entire world. After all he was extremely wealthy, had his health, a beautiful house, servants to run at his beck and call, he had a beautiful wife and three wonderful children - admittedly none of them looked the least bit like him; as a matter of fact, two were black - he wondered about that - and one had a distinct oriental appearance, whereas he was pure Nordic stock: fair-haired, blue- eyed, tall, firm jaw, muscle-bound and not very bright. His wife was economical and very kind-hearted; several times she had been found in bed with a servant to save on the expense of heating or buying extra bedding for guests or the staff. She was so kind-hearted that she often took the odd stray dog to bed with her to give it some pleasure and loving in an otherwise bleak existence. It was a pity about those blinding headaches she had been having. But we can't have everything all the time, and all things considered life had been pretty good to them. When the trade cycle took another turn for the worse, (or was it an invasion of barbarian tribes from the north?), Buttons found himself without a bent cent. He had mounting debts and hounding creditors. His wife was on holiday when disaster struck and no matter how hard he tried he could not seem to get in touch with her. When the truth finally dawned: that she was off with another man, other men to be cruelly correct, he decided that enough was enough and that there was only one honorable way out. So he became a male prostitute. Cinderella, meanwhile, was jazzing it up as if there were no tomorrows, without paying particular attention to her bank balance. And as the cash became scarcer, she found that the friends became fewer. And so it came to pass that in the last days, she found herself again penniless and without a friend. Like her husband, she sought an alternative life style, and decided to spread it around again, but this time in return for a token payment or a crust of bread. To her surprise, she discovered that no-one wanted it. "Fuck off, you worn-out old crone," she was told by the local whore-master. "Who the hell do you think is going to pay good readies to fuck an old dried-up bag like you?" "Yes, off with you, you unmitigated piece of trash, off we say!" echoed the populace. Even the dogs ran for their lives when she appeared. And so, sad at heart, with tears in her eyes, poor Cinderella turned her footsteps homeward. She would seek out dearest Buttons, and tell him how much she loved him, and would forgive him his shortcomings and give him all the encouragement he required to become rich again and they could live in their grand house and eat the finest foods and dress in the purest silks and beat the hell out of the servants! She never did find Buttons. But she never could get out of her mind the story told by the fairy godmother on two separate occasions. What was it now? Something about a lion and a leopard. The lion was a lazy bugger that scavenged a lot more than it killed, and the leopard never did change its spots. 'And a dove came and settled on her shoulder and sang a beautiful song, and when it had finished its song they turned homeward.' This is how the Grimm brothers end their version of the story. Sad! For the poor old bitch had no home to go back to! Just memories to fall back on, and for the life of her and for the rest of her life, she could not find any fault in herself - for all the evil that had befallen her, other people were to blame! For of such stuff fairy tales are told! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This story was written as an adult fantasy. The author does not condone the described behavior in real life. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Kristen's collection - TV, Sitcom & Movie Archive