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November 18, 2011
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The Truth About the Glass, Part 31

November 18, 2011
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Constance ran down the several flights of stairs and out to where she saw the beast fall. But when she got there, she found in his stead a skinny, pale, weaselly-looking fellow. “But where is the...?” she began, and then, “Oh, don’t tell me it was you.” “Ta-da,” said the skinny fellow sarcastically. “I thought you’d be handsome or something,” said Constance. “I don’t have to be handsome. I’m a prince. I can be whatever I want,” said the prince, whose name was Crucio. “But how did the spell break? I certainly didn’t break it.” “You most certainly did. I suppose it means you like me. Haha! What a funny thing.” Constance pouted childishly. “I only liked you when you were a beast, and even then it was only because you were so unpleasant, and you liked all the same unpleasant things that I like.”Prince Crucio stooped and picked up an expired goblin. “Just because I’m a prince doesn’t mean I’m charming,” he said in a high-pitched voice while puppeteering the goblin’s jaws. “I like all sorts of unpleasant things. I don’t have a respectable bone in my body. Just ask the witch who cursed me!” Constance turned her back to the prince and folded her arms across her chest. “Prove it,” she said. “Well...” said the prince as he discarded the goblin. “I like frightening children. Poisonous flowers. Funerals. And you.” And this, dear reader, is where our tale becomes wretchedly sweet. It happens even to the worst of us. Yes, those two awful characters returned to the kingdom, where the prince’s father welcomed his son again. They married quite soon after, which made the king’s ball their wedding reception, which might explain why so many of the guests - all of those who drank the wine, in fact - came down with the same stomach virus at exactly the same moment. And why Constance’s stepsisters both broke out in the most horrifying case of projectile acne anyone has ever witnessed. But that’s another story for another time.

The important facts are that Prince Crucio and Princess Constance would one day become king and queen, and they would go down in the history as the worst monarchs who ever lived, and they would live rottenly ever after.

November 18, 2011
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Tagged: 31 Days of Halloween, 31 days of halloween 2011, halloween, the truth about the glass

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Skary is written, drawn, and animated by Katy Towell. Ms. Towell is an animator, writer, illustrator and designer in the Philadelphia area with dreams of one day being the scary old lady in the house about which all the neighborhood children tell ghost stories. She’s also the author and illustrator of Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow (Knopf) and Charlie and the Grandmothers (Knopf).