Mascots Gone Wild
In ‘Snow White Is Mine!’ by Fred Zackel, life backstage at a theme park is no fairytale.
Enjoy a peek behind the scenes, with this excerpt from Issue 3, Summer 2014, on sale now until March 31st.
Snow White Is Mine!
by Fred Zackel
Twenty minutes before the park opens, Snow White and the White Rabbit are sitting one behind the other on the Train. They sit on different benches.
The White Rabbit has a gun concealed in his costume.
He is minutes away from killing Snow White.
This morning I watched her pin on the wig that transformed her.
She was … desirable. I wanted her.
She needed coffee.
She had been at the bars last night.
We both had to hit the bathroom before we boarded the train outside the dressing rooms.
The train was already outside the rear doors to the backstaging area.
She in the front row and I behind her.
Gonna teach you a lesson, I whisper.
I had a hornet up my butt, she told me.
I wanted her dead.
For what she did to me. For what she didn’t.
Most employees are not allowed backstage. Too many opportunities for cell phone cameras to snap away at Mickey without his head or Minnie without …
We have to eat in private rooms. A chilly windowless room just for people like us.
Plastic wrapped leftovers from Yesterdayland.
Snow White rarely eats breakfast. Butterflies about stepping out on stage, she told me. The little ones believe so much, she told me. She wants to be at her peak all the time.
Back when she was still talking to me.
Find out what happens next in Issue 3, Summer 2014, ON SALE now until March 31st!
Fred Zackel is an English professor who enjoys breaking the rules. Find his work on amazon.com.
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