A Modern Cinderella.

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Andrei Sabah Màrquez-Mees                                                                        28/04/2007

A Modern Cinderella

                                                                   Short story by Andrei Sabah

Once upon a time there was a beautiful lady called Ann. She lived with her mother, her father, a brother and a sister.

Ann was the fair white sheep of the family.

Both her parents were hypocrites, her father used to tell something to one person and another thing to the other, always for his convenience.

 Her mother appeared to be a nice person, very educated and with a lot of class. She felt she was blue-blooded. This was to her advantage because anyone outside the family would think that she was nice and kind-hearted. But her reality was different. Her heart had black spines and was rotten to the core.

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 Victoria, Ann’s sister, was her mother’s favourite. She would make her mother think that she did everything her mother told her to do. In that way, she appeared to be the prodigious one of the family, but she was as hypocrite as her parents. Her relationship with Ann was disastrous.

 Ann’s brother was the favourite of her father, because he was the next man in the family and would play football, just as his father did; he was named Oscar, as his father.  

 Oscar and Victoria had all the privileges. Ann had to work very hard and got ...

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