Thanks to one of my favorite
deviantart.com artists, Artur Rosa for permission to use his beautiful “The Web”!
And a hat tip to Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman" :)
Narrator: Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome back for the finale of our show tonight here on Vice and Virtue
Personified. Tonight we’ve seen Charity weaving through the Ribbon Dance, and
hasn’t she been magnificent!
Audience APPLAUSE
Narrator: But things took a turn
before our last sponsor break, and as you can see, Charity seems to be, well,
what do our panelists think? Adam Venile…
Audience
APPLAUSE
Narrator: Dame Judy Mensch…
Audience
APPLAUSE
Narrator: And Maya Angelami..
Audience
APPLAUSE
Adam Venile: I would say that
Charity has been Grace personified, except we’ve already seen Grace on the
show.
Audience
LAUGHTER
Adam Venile: Charity was weaving
so many of those red silk ribbons around the stage in such complicated
patterns, I thought the tattoos on my body had come to life and were dancing
around her.
Audience
LAUGHTER
Adam Venile: She’s such a
delicate, tasty little morsel, wrapped up like that. I can hardly resist taking
a bite…
Audience
LAUGHTER
Dame Judy Mensch: I’d be careful,
if I were you, Adam. Charity’s personification exhibits Grace, Strength, and
Beauty of form and spirit. You shouldn’t make the classic white metrosexual
male assumption that those things infer weakness. Step too close to those
ribbons, and you may find yourself hobbled and hogtied!
Audience
LAUGHTER
Maya Angelami: Dame Judy, I think
you’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s there in the arch of her back, the ride
of her breasts, the grace of her style. Charity is a Phenomenal Woman.
Audience
APPLAUSE
Don’t be fooled by the curl of her
hands, or the drape of her head. There’s life in her yet, and Charity is often
strongest when her movements are so small, they are invisible to the outer eye.
It’s the Love she gives to herself, the Permission to rest and gather her
Strength. Her Courage won’t be bound by those ribbons, and she will forever be
free.
Audience
THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE
Narrator (over applause): Ladies
and gentlemen, that’s all we have time for on our show tonight here on Vice and
Virtue Personified. Join us next week to find out if Charity can escape the
ties that have bound her. And we’ll meet our next Personification of Vice: Pride.
Be sure to tune in for more Vice and Virtue Personified. You can also check out
videos of tonight’s performance and more on our website, viceandvirtue.com.
Thanks to our sponsors….
Dogs in house
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Houdini
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Time writing:
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25 minutes
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October word
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16,791
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Prompt: Fantasy TV: Vice and Virtue Personified: The Charity Episode
ReplyDelete“You ready?” I whispered.
Mariellen nodded. She was always silent before a performance. I couldn’t keep from chattering. The semi-celebs watching us didn’t help, either, ratcheting my nerves up another notch. I fingered my ribbons again, making sure they were wrapped just as I desired.
The opening bars of the theme song started and our ribbons tightened. Mariellen and I rose together, seemingly tangled, but every wrap of the ribbon was designed. I was vice tonight, and Mariellen virtue; we swapped roles to keep our skills flexible. Dancing the opening credits of a game show wasn’t exactly my dream, but it was a job. And I was dancing doing it, too. Better than some of the starry-eyed girls in my childhood dance troop could say now.
“Tonight on Vice and Virtue Personified,” said the announcer, “we’re joined by Miss Beauty, daughter of the famous Sleeping, and Ralph, Assistant Head Elf in Santa’s workshop. They’ll face off today for charity; the winner will donate...”
I let the words flow past me as I concentrated on my dance. Over, under, spin. I flung out a loose end of ribbon behind me, for Mariellen to catch. I leaned forward on it, and fell, abruptly, to a secondary ribbon. I looked behind me. Mariellen wasn’t there.
Time writing: ~25 min
Wow, that was a hard one! And I see I took "charity" to mean something completely different than you.
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