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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460660" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0190 A novel fairy story for a poetic multi-faith Giftmas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Cinderella’ (I’m using this pseudonym<br>to protect her identity, now she’s<br>ex-hot, ex-famous) , while sweeping, dusting, <br>fire-lighting, all that deprived childhood stuff -<br>felt that she had more to offer; <br>had not realised her full potential; so<br>in a cheap exercise book, wrote her<br>fictionalised life-story, suitably worked up, <br>in her spare moments; even, when short of incident, <br>setting up some neat situation with<br>her ugly sisters etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">thanks to her friend Buttons who<br>was computer-literate, hence<br>his name, ha, she<br>self-published and, with a wand-wave from<br>her Fairy Godmother<br>by ‘sheer chance’ when her sisters had a famous critic<br>and, unusually, discoverer of talent, to dine, <br>hit the headlines – Booker Prize<br>in an off-year, interviews, weary book tours of the US, <br>life-style articles, all that, <br>- a gift to journalists, rags to riches story –<br>was courted through many photo-opportunities<br>by ex-hot celebs in search of boosting their<br>waning reflected glory… in short, <br>Hit It Big.<br>‘We always knew<br>her talent’ wrote her botoxed sisters…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until one day, her Fairy Godmother<br>winging past late as usual and slightly<br>tetchy with it, reckoned that<br>Our Heroine had had her fifteen minutes<br>and wondered what to do to slap her down; until<br>she remembered that she’d fixed that too –<br>Famous First Book Novelists<br>have to spend the following year<br>while the rest of us are having fun out there, <br>seeing their name fade from the headlines<br>and the gossip columns and<br>the stories planted by their PR<br>and cutting down on the parties<br>and those they do go to, they<br>are only half-there as they watch<br>for 'material', as a break from<br>sitting at their desk while confidence<br>dwindles into self-doubt<br>and the critics sharpen up their talons, as Last Year's Winners<br>scrape out that Second Novel..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the Fairy Godmother (who<br>doubles as the Wicked Witch, it’s<br>a divine joke) chuckled in a somewhat<br>double-edged way, whilst checking<br>the time and remembering that for fairies, <br>arriving late increases the dramatic tension.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there’s a moral here for poets too but<br>to point it out would be<br>uncool</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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ex-hot, ex-famous) , while sweeping, dusting, 
fire-lighting, all that deprived childhood stuff -
felt that she had more to offer; 
had not realised her full potenti..."></div>
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