The Empress Has No PantSuit
By Saz.
Once upon a time, in the not so distant past or very near future, there lived a famous lady who dreamed of being Empress. In some part, she was famous in the way that anyone who is smart and works hard is famous. But in most part, she was famous for her husband. He was FAMOUS! For, in fact, he had been Emperor. Not just any emperor, but The Emperor at a time when peace and prosperity reigned over the land.
So the famous lady dreamed of being Empress too. But the famous lady had a problem. How could she convince the people that she deserved to be Empress? "I know!" she said, "I’ll act like an Empress and everyone will just assume that I am Empress!"
For some, it was enough that that famous lady acted like an Empress and therefore she was The Empress. But for most, she just seemed a little pushy. So the famous lady thought again, "I know!" She said, "it is not enough that I act like an Empress, I must look like an Empress!"
But the famous lady, again, had a problem. She didn’t have enough cloth to make her Empress Pantsuit. "I know!" she said, "I’ll take some of my husband’s Emperor Suit!" But she could snip only as much as she thought no one would notice. In the end, she had only slightly more cloth than before.
So the famous lady thought and thought and thought until she remembered what her husband once told her, "When you’re real FAMOUS, lies can stretch the truth!" "Well," the famous lady continued to think, "what is this pantsuit to me but the truth of who I am?" Then she thought, "and, if the truth of who I am is Empress, then I am FAMOUS enough!"
Very carefully the famous lady began to use lies to stretch the fabric for her Empress Pantsuit. As she worked, she discovered something her FAMOUS husband hadn’t told her, lies can stitch together truths. In no time, the famous lady lied together the most convincing Empress Pantsuit ever seen! "I am surely Empress to all!" exclaimed the famous lady as she donned her Empress Pantsuit and prepared herself for the people.
"Oh!" cried the people as they saw the famous lady wearing her Empress Pantsuit. "Is that not the most worthy pantsuit ever seen!?" "Surely, she must be The Empress!" But the famous lady was not happy, for she still had a problem. Only those who saw her in her Empress Pantsuit were convinced. So she resolved to never take it off, to wear her Empress Pantsuit everywhere, until everyone was convinced that she was The Empress.
As the famous lady wore her Empress Pantsuit again and again and again, the lies, which are never as strong as the truth, began to stick out like little threads. Until one day, when she was out in public wearing her pantsuit, a not famous young man, who was never convinced by the pantsuit anyway, reached out and pulled one of the lies. "No!" cried the famous lady as her Empress Pantsuit tumbled to the ground, "I am undone!" and in a sudden moment of surprise to herself and the people, she promptly disappeared!
The people stared at where she had been and marveled at the small bits of cloth she left behind. "Is that all there was?" they asked and wondered aloud to each other that so little could be made into so much.
Now all good stories have a moral and here is mine in three. When you’ve made yourself into a lie, you are nothing without the lie. Even the best looking Empress Pantsuit can be just bits of cloth. And finally, while lies are used to stretch the truth they should never be used to make the truth. Lies will unravel, even for the FAMOUS.
The End.