| A TWICE WEEKLY SERIAL OF BIG TOP FOLK BY
SIMON PARKE |
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EPISODE 9
A NEW FREAK
"I hear we have a new freak," says The Great Davido, as he shaves in his trailer.
"Really?" says Samantha, still lying in bed, filing her nails.
"Scuttle the Dwarf – really, it's so – oh, I don't know – low brow; so low brow. Like an episode of Shameless."
"What does he do?"
"It doesn't matter what he does! It's the fact that, well – he's a dwarf, for Christ's sake! An oddity! A freak! I thought we'd moved on from the whole freak thing."
"What if he's a skilled dwarf?"
Davido puts down his razor and begins to trim his nostrils.
"How brainless are you? Do you really think he'd be here if he wasn't abnormally short? Do you really think that?"
"And do you think you'd be here if you weren't the shape you are?"
"Yes, but I've worked to become that shape; and that's the difference. He hasn't worked to become a dwarf!"
"And you haven't worked to become 6 foot 2, with a propensity for health."
"No, I'm sorry, but it's a disgrace, grotesque and demeans us all. What was Turtle thinking? I should be on the selection panel at auditions. Then we'd see some changes."
"No short people?"
"No freaks, certainly."
"I'm assuming that includes Jews and homosexuals?"
"Now you're being ridiculous. And it's your turn to make the bed."
More clowning around |
