manny and peter

EMMANUEL AND PIERRE

A Modern Fairy Tale

Meant to Scare Children

So they go to Sleep with

Moral Thoughts Abounding

By Izzy Ess of Scariness

Pierre refused to eat the food that Manny had prepared.  He was suspicious that it had been poisoned such that Pierre would eat the poisoned part while his life-long friend, Emmanuel, would get the part that was untainted.  This would be something like the fairy tale about the Sleeping Beauty who had been protected by the Seven Dwarfs.  The Evil Witch, who was the ruling Queen, had magic monitors, not unlike the present Big Brother monitors, which told her that she wasn’t the most beautiful woman in the land, because the hunter that had been sent to murder her had duped her with another heart from an innocent animal, because he couldn’t make himself murder an innocent,  child.  I’ve always thought the Seven Dwarfs were the opposite of the Seven Deadly Sins, perhaps the Seven Happy Virtues who whistled while they worked who didn’t anticipate the underhandedness of the Evil, rather beautiful, Queen.  Pierre got himself so worked up, he died of a massive heart attack before Manny could administer his artful CPR.  Go figure…

THE END

© izzy sommers, md

Welland, Canada

September 6, 2013