Cinderella Claps Back

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)>North Carolina author Traci Claywell has released a satirical allegory </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)>Cinderella Claps Back: The Reckoning</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)> about two opposing forces in today's American politics: female voters and MAGA. Using both observation and imagination Claywell presents one possible scenario for the burning quandary of the day: what's going to happen to our country? In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)>Cinderella Claps Back: The Reckoning</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)> the answer to that serious question is played out by a team of familiar childhood characters using their vision intelligence and grit.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)>Working with a team of talented artists in Ukraine Claywell has included 16 pages of full-color illustrations in this whimsical fairy tale for adults.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)>When the Fairy Bureau of Investigation uncovers a plot to overthrow the Palace on Charlotte's Dark Web Queen Ella and her cabinet of ministers must devise a plan to keep Rumplestiltskin and his horde of angry brown-coated wolves at bay.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)>He gimped back and forth slowly from one end of the stage to the other clapping back to the audience his minions his all-adoring tools. He knew they would believe anything he said. He was the only character who said things outwardly that they believed privately but were too hesitant to say out loud. He removed the plugs from their private jugs of resentment stirred their pots of bitterness and electrified their disappointments into a blaze of self-deluded victimhood. In a nutshell he validated their hate. And they adored him for it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)>Rumpelstiltskin licked his slobbery lips as his eyes glazed with power. Seconds turned to minutes as the chanting continued. Rumpelstiltskin returned to the middle of the stage and with his head held way back eyes closed as if standing under a shower of golden rain he raised both arms into the air in the form of a cross and soaked it up. The wolves howled even louder eventually reducing his quadric-syllabic name to just one word.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)>Traci Claywell is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she earned her B.A and M.A. in Psychology and Counselor Education respectively. She worked with children and adolescents as a school counselor before migrating to Beaufort North Carolina where she published two community newspapers: The Beaufort Gam and The Venture of Carteret County.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)>Cinderella Claps Back: The Reckoning</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)> is available in both soft cover and eBook format.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(27 27 27 1)>For more information visit cinderellaclapsback.com</span></p>