The Outcasters
A Society of Short Stories!
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Act 3: THE FIREFLY AND THE WASP! The narrator from offstage makes an introduction. Narrator: One day, in the garden of Fairlady, there lived many fabulous fruits, flirtatious flowers and charismatic creatures. This garden is home to the firefly family, a peaceful and well to do society. Missy, from stage right, enters dressed in a purple harness, big white socks, lavender skirt and giant translucent, rainbow firefly wings. Missy: Oh, what a beautiful day! I look around me and all I see is one big world full of dreams on cupcakes, hopes, like rainbow through water, coming true, an ocean that stretches to the end of space and birds that flock on winds of kindness. Oh, if only I could reach my hand out to caress the twilight sky, I know I can make the world a better place each and every day. As Missy stretches her right hand to touch the ceiling and twirls, spinning in clockwise circles about the Paper Mache garden the narrator goes on…. Narrator: But, for every Adam and Eve who tend to their garden, even this one has a dark serpent, waiting to deflower it with bitterness and anger. Rose Marie, from stage left, enters the stage, “flying” on wires and a small harness but she is dressed as a giant wasp, with cute little antennas sticking out of her fiery red hair, a body of yellow and black fur, giant wings, a stinger and two swords, ready to do battle. Rose Marie: So, the Firefly is it? You come here to preach your idiotic do gooder ramblings again? Who cares? There is no such thing as happy endings and definitely not one for a mistress as naïve as you. Crowd: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Missy: (To the audience) Fear not, my fellow fireflies, for this pathetic wretch has lived but a harsh life, one full of solitude and despair imposed upon her by selfish and primitive insects. Rose Marie: Selfish? Primitive? Is that what you think of wasps now, miss perfect who believes in beauty and grace? Missy: You misunderstand me, Wasp, for I know not hate, nor racism but only true love. I am sure you are a wasp who knows too. Rose Marie: I only know that I am gonna kick your lower abdomen from here to the ends of the earth and hell if I am lucky. Crowd: WHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Missy: Hm….if that's the way you feel about it, then, I'm afraid I have no choice but to fight you… Missy walks up to a giant tulip and pulls out a long wooden Bo with eyes, teeth and tongues carved in it. Missy: I had hoped we could be the best of friends but I guess this sort of meeting is long overdue. Missy twirls the Bo clockwise and counterclockwise… Swiiish…whooof…swiishh…swiiiwiiiwiiiiish… Before standing tall with her staff standing as well. Rose Marie: It's not a meeting, it's your reckoning! Rose Marie makes her swords do jabs and thrusts in the air, waiting to take slices into the firefly's light. Swiiiish…swiiish…..swaaash… Rose Marie: Haauuuraaaaarrgh!!! Rose Marie “flies” in to Missy, using her right swashbuckling sword to attack… Missy blocks with her Bo and uses the staff as a lever to throw Rose Marie to the back of the stage. Rose Marie spins around and around in confusion…. Before correcting herself and retaliating with the two swashbuckling swords crossed at the elbows as she makes another attack…. Missy twirls her Bo gently and slowly… Rose Marie closes in on her prey… Missy turns her staff, to face Rose, like a cue stick… And… POP! She knocks Rose Marie down, her wings “fall off” as the wires detach from the harness and go up towards the ceiling. Missy points her Bo towards the fallen Rose Marie... Missy: Are you ready to give up? Rose gives a look of fear before giving a sinister but sarcastic smile. Rose Marie: Ha! Never in a million years. Rose Marie uses her left sword to move the Bo away but, before Missy can thrust it back at her, Rose takes the right sword and the left to hold the staff in place, then, with all her upper body strength, uses the swords as leverage to push Missy, knocking her down. Missy: Gah! Rose Marie: Now, it's Truth Telling Time!
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“Since 1995, I set out as an artist to create characters who were hideous, strange and did not fit within the normal boundaries of a modern society. The Circus Freaks, my 1st creations, are such examples of de-humanizing humans, placing them in a world where they are not accepted by the majority and must push their way uphill to gain power. After 15 years of creating many people, places and things based on the real world, publishing books, including this one, I came to an epiphany. Who you are in relation to someone else depends not on skin color, age, religion, sexual preference, language, biology, country or planet. These short stories contain individual lives of those you are familiar with in one social category or another as opposed to those of your neighbor, family member, significant partner, your enemies, and those unlikely you’ve never met. In the end, a world, a galaxy of prosperity comes with the efforts of all who are related because they are unrelated and that’s exactly what this book is about.” --Maestro Drake
About the Author
Maestro Drake was born in the Spring of 1978. His art dates back as early as the 1990's in the form of rough pencil sketches crudely drawn on old, fanfold, printing paper. Through high school, Jr. College and University years, his work evolved from colored pencil designs into marker mediums. Up until 2007, Maestro practiced his writing skills on notebooks, writing outlines for plots with comic strips. After the debut of his original book, “The Outcasters: Drake” his characters were firmly established as his original creations with the “O” Universe yet to be fully revised. After 2010, Maestro's illustrations evolved to visually crafting characters and likenesses using a technique dubbed, “Maestro-shapes” to build, people, places and things with a new approach to appeal to all ages. “The Outcasters: A Society of Short Stories!” is a reboot of The “O” Universe as one world of diverse people separated by circumstances of genre.