Little red dresses: a modern day fairytale (1458 hits)
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Submitted by Circe <fickle.muse.at.gmail.com> (View user info) at 2006-05-02 11:40:54 EDT
### Won't ever understand, not if I live to be a thousand, not if these lungs keep shoving rank air in and out of me for millenia, why they all expect me to be nice. I mean, they're warned, you know? Right from when they're little girls with their hair so pretty and soft and their little puffy dresses scented of starch and strawberries, right from the start, they're warned to be careful of the big bad wolf, though he smiles pretty (so pretty) and tells you it's okay, he's here to help.
Won't ever understand why they're all surprised, little mouths all stretched out in that 'O' shape, when the big bad wolf who smiles so pretty puts them against the wall and takes all he wants from what's under their dresses (not puffy, not no more, but shimmery or summery or satiny, grown women dresses, still scented of strawberries) and leaves them with not much else.... don't get it now, won't get it ever.
They know, they walk around with mace in their purses, with distrust coloring every action, with that cautious suspicious sexuality flavoring every half-lie they utter, and they KNOW, but they all, each one of them, think they know better. They'll eye the scruffy janitor with all that cold "I know what you're after" hate, even though he's happily married and the kinda Catholic that confesses impure thoughts about his own wife, but the goodlooking stranger with the wellcut suit and the big bad wolf smile who helps change their flat tire or push start their car or asks to use the phone because his own car broke down, well, they take one look at the Rolex and the capped teeth and they know better. They can pick a bad guy from a mile away, folks, they know what to be careful of, and it's not class in a Rolex, fo' sho'.
And so they let the big bad wolf in part of the way, and the big bad wolf talks his way in some more of the way, and when talking won't get it done he just shoves himself in the rest of the way and then they're up against that wall with Victoria's secret around their ankle, torn and damp, and their mouths are all O-shaped and they ain't ever gonna tell, 'coz after I leave they'll take a shower and clean all that strawberry-scented flesh up and keep it to themselves because what you don't do is go crying to the woodcutter after you've invited the big bad wolf in for lemonade and cookies, or scotch and whatever comes after, or just because he had a pretty smile - you just don't, that's all, you douche yourself bloody and keep your mouth shut and that's me.
I'm the big bad wolf in a Rolex. And I don't have to understand in order to know.###
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~~~ I understand - have always understood have always watched have always always known. I understand the snake who offered Eve the apple and Adam who cast away his first wife because she wanted to be on top and I understand how they hate and fear and how they build up all those useless muscles because, hey ladies, look at me, I could throw you across a room and you best not come at me with your cunt dripping sweet bitter poison and your fucking perfumed pillows, you best not, because I am a Man.
And I watch them. Their desperate scared posturing, the way they band together in (herds) groups whenever they're on the (hunt) prowl and the way they back each other up and laugh like (hyenas in a pack, circling, watching, not quite brave enough to go on alone but oh how we laugh at you, reject me go on I have my pack) it doesn't matter.
And so I drift aimless as the ocean and dark and sweet like chocolate on the edges of things and draw them out one by one and I take them out and away to the alleyroomcarhotelbedkitchenbathroomanywhere and first they have me and then I have them and they may be all muscle and bravado but when the head goes back and the eyes close there is no fucking muscle building fat burning supplement that can stop their whole body shifting limp warm and gone when the whispersnick of the blade gently parts the nerves at the back of that neck. Believe me, because I know.
I'm the angel in the backseat, I'm Helen of Troy, I'm Lilith, I'm every mythical female that ever scared a lost traveller so bad he'd rather brave a million miles of nameless oean than face me down again, I am She, I am That Bitch, I am That Fucking Cunt, I am the sting in the tail and it's not like they weren't warned - ever hear of the praying mantis?~~~
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### The music in here is giving me a headache like you wouldn't believe, but it's all good because I smile right through it, smile so pretty, smile and wait and watch all the helplessly gyrating tanned flesh under the strobe lights, each and every one of them looking for me, looking for the big bad wolf, looking for the guy they just know is the right one on account of how he smiles so pretty. ###
~~~ That's him there - swinging dick and a fake smile, watching the girls on the dancefloor like a hawk watches rabbits down in the grass. He's an Adam if ever I saw one. I set down my drink and sashay over to him, all that hair, all that strut, all that female confidence that makes them salivate like dogs. ~~~
### Here we go - the first bite of the night, some manhating cunt hiding behind soft hair and a painted Jezebel smile. She looks good, though - she has that 'I know a bad man when I see one and, baby, you ain't he' look to her. I give her my best smile and lean in, to make her feel small and warm and as though I'm paying attention only to her. ###
Two people meet in a nightclub. She's pretty and smiling, he's good looking and well dressed.
And the hell of it is, they really aren't anything that unusual.
User Reviews
Submitted by Alter (user info) at 2007-09-26 22:09:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No, Comment.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-04-17 16:31:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
There was something I got caught up on, but I don't remember it now, so it can't have been important. This was very cool.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2006-06-10 22:03:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Well fuck, I missed one of your posts, one of the posts that I go out of my way to find.
I blame you.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-06-10 21:51:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
So you're an idealist, right?
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-05-17 12:05:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2006-05-17 11:59:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2006-05-17 11:44:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This was really good Circe, but I think this:
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2006-05-17 09:19:13 (#)
Ranking: 2
I took the car to the regular guy.
He told me the other cv needs to be replaced as well and the car needs a tune-up.
One day, I'll take the car in to have something done, and they guy will hand me the guys with a smile and say "All fixed! The car is running perfectly! Nothing more I can do here!"
And then the sky will fall.
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Was more of a fairy tale!
Submitted by eppliks (user info) at 2006-05-15 01:26:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yeah, yeah, yeah, parallels.
I enjoyed the honesty- dur, formatting.
Submitted by Rhodan (user info) at 2006-05-13 12:17:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
..because you looked kinda endearing with pigtails
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2006-05-03 15:46:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2006-05-03 11:59:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Shadow - go ahead, do whatever you like with it. Once it's on Uber it's fair game.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2006-05-03 11:52:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
as ghey as this sounds... I *borrowed this piece to show to a friend, now we're thinking of making it into a rock song... with your permission of course, and credit to you as the origial author.
Submitted by Kopesh (user info) at 2006-05-03 11:48:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked the end, very nice...
Submitted by SiskelandFatboy (user info) at 2006-05-03 10:29:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This is writing. Reminds me of Isaac's descriptive nature. Not that you're him, I know.
Not saying that at all, just that this is as good and well written as some of his work.
I loved the idea.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-05-02 22:18:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You should know that you earned this particular +2. Now put it up on your shelf with the others.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2006-05-02 20:18:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Awesome! I liked this!
Submitted by bobotheclown (user info) at 2006-05-02 18:51:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:57:29 (#)
Ranking: 2
Fucking FANTASTIC!
Holy shit I loved this. You're getting better and better.
What a great piece of flash fiction.
and PFF... if you're going to make an insult at least try and make it sensible you fucking Buffoon.
Like comparing you to a zit on the ass of Ubersite... that works.
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i thought fuckface was quite droll there acatually
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-05-02 17:41:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
READS LIEK AN EPISODE OF SPY VS. SPY
Submitted by the_thorne (user info) at 2006-05-02 14:02:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fucking eh, that was good.
Submitted by Spacegrass (user info) at 2006-05-02 14:01:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Two people meet in a nightclub. She's pretty and smiling, he's good looking and well dressed.
And the hell of it is, they really aren't anything that unusual.
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Something about that bothered me. I can't figure out what it is, maybe it was too abrupt? I dunno. Anyway, overall quite excellent.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2006-05-02 13:30:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I like it.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2006-05-02 13:23:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
brilliant.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:57:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fucking FANTASTIC!
Holy shit I loved this. You're getting better and better.
What a great piece of flash fiction.
and PFF... if you're going to make an insult at least try and make it sensible you fucking Buffoon.
Like comparing you to a zit on the ass of Ubersite... that works.
Submitted by Durae (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:34:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:33:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
ooooh.. Very nice.
I loved this - the last line is awesome too.
Submitted by bobotheclown (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:31:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
i wonder if this woman smiles upon men of any sort?
i'm sure if she came across a charming golden headed beauty such as myself she would never contemplate any action apart from ingesting as much of my milk of human kindness as she possibly could.
or at least i'd certainly hope that was the case.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:26:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This encounter may cause a rip in the universe.
Submitted by MyTeeOne (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:20:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I dug this. Well written
Submitted by fried-green-potatoes (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:12:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nice descriptions, and I like the way the perspective shifts
begin to compress at the end. Builds tension. (Can you ital one of the two?)
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:12:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick,
twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in.
-- Homer Simpson
Homer the Great
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:07:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
woulda liked to know who won.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-05-02 12:01:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Like it
Submitted by missflibble (user info) at 2006-05-02 11:55:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
liked this.
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2006-05-02 11:50:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
you're like the fucking ned flanders of ubersite
Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2006-05-02 11:49:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm not sure if I'm more aroused or chilled by this.
I don't work in packs though.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-05-02 11:48:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ummm...uhhhh...
I don't know what to make of this but I'm pretty sure I liked it.
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-05-02 11:44:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Holy Moly! The bastard's rich!
-- Homer Simpson
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?