Some Wanderer wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 8:27 pm
These are good. Keep it up.
Thank you! I notice we've had contact on DA too.
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This scenario is involving a married couple who just happen to be stage performers. Apologies in advance for having to wade through some text in this post, but the pics are also illustrations I've added to a story I'm writing on DeviantArt (so the text gives you a drift of it).
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To an audience, they've always been a novelty act full of surprises and not a little mystery, combining the elements of stock in the trade magic tricks and even some knife throwing. But nothing was to capture the crowd's attention better than their latest addition to end their performance. The utterly amazing.. "Doll sized woman" illusion!
A very clever one it was too, where the female partner steps into a cabinet at the corner of the stage, which is then securely chained and padlocked in the usual theatrically impressive manner. The prop of course is solid and secure with no way for an assistant to escape from without being released, and a member of the audience is invited on stage to confirm this. Even to the point of the assistant knocking on the box from the inside, to make it obvious she is in there.
After this, the auditorium falls silent as a spotlight picks out an ornate small table at the front of the stage, centrally placed and just feet away from the closest row of patrons. And resting upon the circular top, is a minature replica of the cabinet the assisant had entered just minutes earlier. Its small appearance is identical in every way, except for the obvious lack of chains and the very stout padlock.
The hooded male performer exuding his usual air of sinister mystery, leisurely approaches the table with polished and practiced ease. Whereupon he pauses and waits, before solemnly announcing..
"Whenever you're ready to appear my dear.. You have an audience waiting to see you with bated breath!"
The crowd watch closely as the door of the tiny cabinet opens, accompanied by their genuine gasps of amazement as a very small female figure emerges. To their astonishment, she is umistakably the magician's assistant and partner.. but who is clearly now reduced to the size of a living doll!
The diminutive woman smiles and raises her arms to acknowledge the audience's surprised reaction, and seems unruffled by their presence and her obvious lack of stature. Then turning to look up at her "giant" partner, she appears to be saying something to him, whereupon he nods as if agreeing to what she'd said.
She turns to the crowd again, and motions them to be quiet with a finger on her lips.
"Thank you all so much for coming tonight!" they hear her say in the hushed auditorium, in a light but clearly audible small voice.
"You can be sure we'll do this trick again next week for you.. When we'll maybe give you a few more surprises!"
After the ensuing ripple of applause she blows kisses to the crowd and waves, before re-entering the miniature cabinet and closing the door. Then a minute later or less after some theatrical hocus-pocus from her partner, the full sized cabinet is unlocked and she steps out unscathed.
They both take their bows amid rapturous applause.. And it's the end of another show!
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In the story I mentioned, Donna (the lady in the picture above) reveals she's designed a poster for the act, and this is what she came up with.
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Also in the story I describe a rehearsal where they perfect their various routines, and the following pic depicts them practicing a stage scenario that Donna has thought up. A dramatic addition to the "illusion" of when she becomes doll-sized, which of course isn't an illusion at all!
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Well I hope you enjoyed that little flight of fancy, and if you want to read more about where I'm up to with this couple, just visit my DA.
(link in my profile)
sally g, reincarnated.
