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SUMMER CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST
2008 WINNER


Cinderella

by Mitch Burdorf

Rated R
(Inappropriate to any child or teenager because of extreme violence and a bit too much comedy.)

Once upon a time there was a prince who was really good-looking, nice, and an all-star soccer player. He didn’t want to become famous because he couldn’t stand people taking pictures of him, people crowding him, or having to answer reporters’ questions. His four jealous older brothers made him do all the bad and nasty chores and all the good chores too, while they lived their life in luxury with their princess girlfriends riding in the passenger seats of their SUV’s.

The prince turned the right age to have a girlfriend so he looked on-line at princess_girlfriends.com. He didn’t notice the mafia/hit-woman part of Cinderella’s career because he was too interested in how rich she was. He went to the castle to ask if he could have her hand in marriage. She said she would think about it.

The brothers found out and looked on-line at Cinderellanames.org. They found out that she was an expert hit-woman for the mafia and they paid the mafia a million dollars to tell Cinderella to kill their brother because they were jealous and didn’t like him (scary music). Cinderella asked him over to a dinner at the castle. Her mother, the Queen, was also an expert hit-woman, but lets not get into that. And Cinderella was training her younger sister to be an expert hit-woman too. The younger sister, practicing to be a hit-woman, took out a gun and killed the prince. Cinderella said, “Not fair! The mafia hired me to do it!” and smacked her little sister. The Queen scolded Cinderella and sent her to bed _ an hour early.

The Queen made all the servants swear not to tell the King. The King was drunk and easily fooled. The King was also afraid of the dark.

The police found out that Cinderella was working for the mafia (scary music) and she was sent to jail. At court Cinderella was about to be proved guilty of murdering the prince and sentenced to a life in jail. So she killed the judge with a gun from a secret compartment in her glass slipper. Since the judge was dead, and there wouldn’t be another judge for at least 10 days, they decided to rest her case until later and released her on bail.

Later that night a policeman spotted her breaking into the bank. She was captured, arrested, and returned to jail. Two hours later, she broke out because she had a blow torch in the secret compartment of her other glass slipper. She ran to the airport and held up a plane that was about to take off. She made all the passengers get out and flew all the way to Alaska and became an undercover Eskimo-in-hiding. Her glass slippers were hard to use in the snow, so she switched to heated galoshes.

A year later she started her long journey back to the mafia. (She had already changed back into glass slippers.) A police officer saw her half-way there and Cinderella ran away, but lost a glass slipper on purpose containing a time bomb. The only thing left that police officers found was a note that said: “We shall meet again…but this time I’ll have back-up.” (Scary music.)

The End
(Until Cinderella II)

 

 

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