Starring Wicked Queen Squippache, Snow Waz, and the 7 Dweebs.  And, introducing for the first time in decades, the return of  Mirror! Mirror! On the Wall (as himself).

Featuring Sleazy, Slumpy, Dumb (as a rock) Doc, Dumber, Gumpy (who loves shrimp), Bonehead, and Dumpy - also known as the Seven Dweebs.

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CHAPTER TWO

"Mirror! Mirror!!" screamed the Queen.  

She had come running into her boudoir to see if the day had come.  That little witch of a girl would one day be a woman in the mirror's eyes.  Was this the day?  It better not have happened, yet!  The Celebrity Ball was coming and, up to date, the Prince in Waiting had not made his decision who to invite from the peasantry as his female escort. The Queen knew, however, that it would happen someday.  She had read all the other fairy tales.  Some tramp from across the moat would "woo" the little Prince (Queen Squippache always referred to him as a toad) and something wonderful would happen, including exposing the Queen and bringing shame to the dynasty.  Oh! Sorry!  I meant to say, Parliament!

"Who's the fairest of them all?" she asked, huffing and puffing so that things were falling out of all sorts of places - unmentionable things from unmentionable places.  Wink! Wink!

"Excuse me, Queen, I don't have time right now."  answered Mirror! Mirror!

"What do you mean by that, you transparent menace?!" demanded the Queen.  At that moment she noticed that Mirror! Mirror! had been repositioned in the room so that he could look out the chamber doors and down the hallway.  Mirror! Mirror's! mirror was reflecting back out into the hallway.  It was bent over from the top and leaning toward the door as if it could see something interesting out there.

"Well, if you must know," Mirror! Mirror answered without breaking his concentration on the object of his attention, "I'm watching Snow Waz scrub the floor!  My!  My!  What a dream!  I mean this woman is awesome.  Dude!  She's a knockout, homey girl.  Wow!  And two thumbs way up!"

The Wicked Queen leaned over toward the mirror, gazed back at herself, past herself and quickly noticed that Jose! Hallway! Mirror! had repositioned himself so that Mirror! Mirror! could see downstairs.  At the bottom of the stairs, Senoir! Foyer! Mirror! had turned to face Becky! Mirror! (she was disgusted with the whole thing, but, after all, she was part of the family) who had positioned herself just right so that the entire Mirror! staff could watch as Snow Waz, on her knees, scrubbed the dried up dog food from the kitchen floor.  

Queen Squippache stopped breathing for moment.  There were those stupid butterflies, still fluttering about Snow's head.

Mirror! Mirror! took the moment to say one the cruelest things he had ever said before - and, he wished forever that he could take it back.  He did not mean to say it out loud.  But, whatever a Mirror! sees it must say.

"There is the fairest of them all!"

Queen Squippache stumbled to her bed and cried for days.

-----to be continued-----

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