Subject: [Spamfic] [Rumic] "The Plays the Thing"
From: "Henry J. Cobb" <hcobb@slip.net>
Date: 6/8/1997, 9:22 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

[Spamfic] [Rumic] "The Plays the Thing"

    or: "The Thespian and the Aquatranssexual"

    Being a one and half woman show.

By Henry J. Cobb

$Id: play_thing.txt,v 1.2 1997/06/08 14:17:52 hcobb Exp $



These characters and situations are the creation of Rumiko Takahashi.

No infringement of her copyrights is intended.



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Damn Ton-chan anyway.



Doesn't he know how important this drama competition is to me?



But no, he had baseball practice.  Always baseball practice.  For

somebody who was always practicing, one would think he'd actually get

good at it.



In desperation, I had asked Ataru to come along.  That would have been

fun.  We could have gotten pictures taken.  Both Ton-chan and my dearest

brother would have been sent copies.  It would even have been worth

kissing the idiot, just to see the looks on their faces.



But Lum had found out about it and now I sit here all alone, while a

bunch of amateurs mutilate my favorite play.  Life is so dull and

unfair.  I take a tissue from the box offered by one of my kuroko and

dab at my eyes.



At least it will be over soon, this is the last group of losers in the

competition.



They really don't seem to any grasp of the lines at all.  How I want to

jump up there and take over, but even idiots deserve the chance to stage

their productions.



It does seem to have some interesting twists with two Juliets and

several Romeos and a subplot about inheriting a Dojo.



Now at the end, this Romeo is unable to awaken his Juliet with a kiss.

That is exactly like my life, deadly dull with no prince capable of

sparking any life into it.  Finally, the "corpse" takes matters into her

own hands and pulls him down to her.



Yes, that is what I should do.  I applaud heartily this reinterpretation

of the classic.  The winning team is no surprise.



I gesture for my kuroko to attend, "Find out all about that Romeo.  The

last one."



	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb