Why was Grumpy, Grumpy?1
*BUZZ**BUZZ**BUZZ* 2
The alarm clock rang out waking the dwarf from his restful slumber. A short arm swung from the bed and knocked the clock off it's table stand and on to the floor. Two Stubby legs emerged from the covers and gently touched the cold floorboards, the legs moved and carried the dwarf to his little hidden bathroom. He turned the taps and stepped carefully under the water.3
"Arghh!!" The dwarf jumped back out from under the unusually cold water and when his wet feet hit the floor he fell back and slammed down on to the harsh floor.4
"Oh my back, my back" The dwarf rolled onto his knees and pushed himself on to his feet straining as he stretched his back. 5
Grumbling and limping the dwarf got dressed and made his way downstairs and into the kitchen where his 6 friends were being noisy as always.6
"Good morning everyone" The dwarf said to his fellow dwarfs7
"Morning, get your own breakfast and hurry up we have to get to work" A dwarf named Doc said throwing a bowl and spoon at the injured dwarf.8
"I'll skip breakfast we wouldn't want to be late" The dwarf replied as he walked upstairs and entered his bedroom once again. When he walked in he saw something that made him angry though, it seems that someone had changed the name on his bed again, instead of "Busy" it said "Grumpy. The others had obviously down this to annoy him yet again they were always trying to make him "lighten up" but he liked keeping busy. He grabbed his hat and went downstairs and followed the others outside their cave to mine for gems.9
While working "Busy the Dwarf" had plenty more accidents that tested his inner peace more and more. First the dwarfs made him work by himself which he didn't mind but it was still annoying, then while working he hit his head on a rock and gave himself a headache, then when they were leaving he cut his arm.10
They eventually got home and Busy was not very happy, he was looking forward to lying down and getting some sleep. When they walked in though they found out that someone had cleaned the house and began to cook something, They investigated some more and discovered someone sleeping in their beds. Busy didn't mind and after finding out that the mysterious cleaner was Snow White he had no problems with her staying with them. Unfortunately though the dwarfs introduced him as Grumpy which didn't help his mood then when he was looking forward to sleep the dwarfs offered his bed as one to sleep on. If all this wasn't bad enough when it came to dinner time Snow White wanted them to wash up, Busy didn't mind washing he was the only Dwarf that enjoyed it but his cut still hurt and the water made it sting. The dwarfs didn't listen though and so they threw him in and washed him up and wouldn't listen when he told them about his arm. 11
All this happened to poor old Busy the Dwarf in one day and you wondered why he is now called Grumpy.12
Author notes
Ok so i wrote this in about 20 minutes while watching Futurama. I always thought that Grumpy was the best Dwarf so this was created.
Anyway hope it isn;t to long.
Please Enjoy.
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Very cute...could be longer...make it more interesting...but i love the idea of it. Thanks for entering and good luck! Snow White is my favorite story too
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This story was a twised view of Snow White and the seven dwarfs not actually little people.
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Fine imagination. well written. However, the world of dwarfs, to me is simpathised with rather than laughed at. Fun is there, but I take it more seriously, maybe because I am too old to enjoy making fun at such thing. I congratulate you for every thing.
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I apologise for two things,
1) My lack of knowledge regarding your vocabulary and my lack of academic excellence.
2) I apologise for my writting not meeting the same brilliance as that of Vern, Wells, Tolkien, or Rowling but i did only spend 20 minutes thinking, planning and writting this piece as with most of my pieces. I'm sure though that if War of the Worlds was written in 20 minutes it would never have made it to the big screen.
By the Way i would love you to inform me of the pieces you have had published, i assume you have had a mojority rule that your writting is worthy as you assume to be skilled enough to judge the work of people who spend more time enjoying writting than reading the guidelines to writting. -
this is cleaver and really quite good. i would love you to change the title of it and enter it into my story contest too called adult farie tales as it is a contest very similer to this one. i am not excepting prewrites in mine so you would have to cut and paist but i have only 7 entries in it so far and its for a lot of points its calld adult faire tales please look for it and enter this or another piece like it as i have extended my contest till the 20th to get more entries. good luck in this contest
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Pointless
I thought that, since you made such a sagacious critique on my story, I'd read some of yours. I guess the utterances of the characters are relatively realistic, but I couldn't ignore the egregious grammar, nor could I pretermit the salient lack of cogency. I can't believe that this was written so that you could explicate why one of the dwarves was called "Grumpy". If you had read anything written before 1950, and especially 19th century literature, you would realize that writing does one of the following things: it elucidates truths about human existence (i.e., it edifies); it prepossesses the reader toward and opinion (i.e., it persuades); it conveys an opinion, or it entertains. None of these effects was achieved. I apologize for my harshness.
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