There might be a lot of people saying "Jesus!" but it definitely isn't a religious experience!
.. and there definitely is some karma at play!
I like this story, especially once I fleshed it out from last year's email, where I just wrote to myself, "teen boys protest that a Christmas Pageant should have a beauty pageant in it as well. So they end up getting those boys into a woman-less pageant right before Christmas." That certainly sums it up nicely, doesn't it? (BTW, are those things really real, or just some invented story line to make us TG enthusiasts envious for not growing up in the right time and location?!?)
Where I expanded it is what I liked best. I needed an authority figure to be able to enforce the pageant, and I needed the stakes to be high enough where the boys would HAVE to do it "willingly" though coerced and forced to do it .. and what better way to make things stick by having it saved for future purposes!
So, I had the story and needed a good picture for it. I found this in the D'archives and I think it works quite well for what I wanted to accomplish. It even gave me the final sentences. Something about it imparts a more realistic story line, though I'm not sure why. Maybe you can tell me down below?
I am thinking, that you out there in reader land, wishing you could be in the situation, right? Figuring out how you'd play it in the classroom trying to be all defiant, and so very reluctantly trying your best not to enjoy it too damn much. But I bet mother knows .. and maybe one or two of the girls that are "helping" you to cope with the horrible fate of being dressed up in fancy dresses gowns, etc .. Could there be a future between you and one of them? Could be! Let me know some back story, and what happens next there in that town!
It's the longest night of the year, winter solstice, and also the convergence of Jupiter and Saturn ..
in 2020! What could possibly go wrong? Don't answer that! I don't want to know!