Picture it & Write

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Welcome to the Picture it & Write creative writing exercise. I invite people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.

Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.

Didn’t flush.

My hand retracted from the stall door as instead of yellow water and brown goop, I’d found a snake inside the bathroom stall. Hopeful, I pushed on the next stall, thankful that there wasn’t a line of people behind me.

Gross!

Someone’s mother hadn’t taught them the proper way to dispose of feminine products. The smell was enough to make bile rise up to the back of my throat. Never mind the site of the products spilling out of the metal bin.

Is it not someone’s job to clean those out? What an awful job. No matter how bad my life gets, at least it won’t be my job to clean no toilet paper.

The last thing I needed was to be stuck on the toilet until someone came by to slide toilet paper to me under the stall or awkwardly try to shimmy in a crouched position with my pants around my ankles to another stall with toilet paper.

Four stalls later, I found one with the paper seat cover, toilet paper, and nothing in the bowl. I was ready to burst. After that, I thought all would be well. My days as Goldilocks looking for just right would be over.

No soap.

–Eliabeth Hawthorne

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Movie Review: Mirror Mirror

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Boromir finally gets to be king!  That almost made the entire movie.  I was skeptical from the previews.  I don’t know what it is about Julia Roberts, but I don’t like her later movies, but I liked the premise.  Mirror Mirror is an adaptation of Snow White.  While it’s not on the level of Ever After or Tangled, it was pretty good.

First, I have to say I absolutely hate the original Snow White fairy tale.  She is the epitome of a damsel in distress, at least the other damsels only needed to bee rescued once.  Why on earth you would want to marry and have heirs with a woman who, when she knows someone is out to kill her, still opens the door for random strangers is beyond me.  So, I was beyond relieved when the previews showed Snow White as a rebel sword fighter who saves the prince.  I can best compare it to Ever After but with some very distinct differences.

Ever After is an adaptation of Cinderella, and just like Mirror Mirror, it’s got a strong female lead as opposed to a damsel in distress.  The biggest difference is that Ever After is the story of a girl who “really lived.”  The movie has period-correct costuming and no magic fairy godmother, just a wicked step-mother and two step-sisters.  Mirror Mirror went the opposite direction.  The costuming was something that would have been at home in The Capitol of The Hunger Games movie, gaudy and over the top.  Magic played a fair role in the movie, and a large role in the plot.

If you love Snow White, it’s worth seeing in theaters, but otherwise wait and rent it.  It wasn’t fantastic, and it’s not one I want to watch over and over, but certainly worth seeing once.

-Eliabeth Hawthorne

Have you seen it?  Are there other Grimms Fairy Tale adaptations you either liked or didn’t?  Tell us about them below.