Preface

Which play to perform?
Posted originally on the SquidgeWorld Archive at http://squidgeworld.org/works/60616.

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This Way Madness Lies [Video Game]
Relationships:
Beatrice | Ingenue Amethyst & Imogen | Ingenue Garnet, Imogen | Ingenue Garnet & Kate | Ingenue Tanzanite, Imogen | Ingenue Garnet & Miranda | Ingenue Citrine, Imogen | Ingenue Garnet & Paulina | Ingenue Aquamarine, Imogen | Ingenue Garnet & Rosalind | Ingenue Emerald, Imogen | Ingenue Garnet & Viola | Ingenue Amber, Beatrice & Imogen & Kate & Miranda & Paulina & Rosalind & Viola [This Way Madness Lies]
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Imogen | Ingenue Garnet, Beatrice | Ingenue Amethyst, Kate | Ingenue Tanzanite, Miranda | Ingenue Citrine, Paulina | Ingenue Aquamarine, Rosalind | Ingenue Emerald, Viola | Ingenue Amber
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High School, Female Friendship, POV Female Character, POV First Person, Dialogue Heavy, References to Shakespeare, Anne of Green Gables References, Friendship, Magical Girl, Happy Ending, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Word count: 100 - 500, Theatre, Gen Work, Rare Fandoms, Cross-Posted from AO3, Betaed – No, Autistic Author
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English
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Published: 2023-03-15 Words: 205 Chapters: 1/1

Which play to perform?

Summary

A microfiction on This Way Madness Lies.
I am Imogen, a student at the prestigious Stratford-Upon-Avon High. I'm troubled today because our drama club has another play to produce, as usual, but my friends and I have gone through all Shakespeare's works.

Which play to perform?

I am Imogen, a student at the prestigious Stratford-Upon-Avon High. I'm troubled today because our drama club has another play to produce, as usual, but my friends and I have gone through all Shakespeare's works. So I announce a meeting after school.

After classes, Beatrice, Kate, Miranda, Paulina, Rosalind and Viola meet me behind the stage curtain.

"So, any concerns?" Kate asks me.

"Yes, which play are we going to perform? We've done all the Shakespeare."

"I vote for a horror story!" Says Paulina.

"No thanks." Says Beatrice.

"Why?" Asks Paulina.

"How about 'Anne of Green Gables'?" Miranda asks. "It's such a touching story!"

"I'm leaning more towards a work by Agatha Christie." Says Rosalind.

"Which one?" Viola asks, curious.

"I don't know yet."

I'm thinking.

"Why not mix the two?" I asked my friends. "Make the story of Anne a murder mystery?"

"Fine by me," Paulina replies, "but put a horror vibe to it!"

The other girls sigh. Still, we agree on our club's next play. "Anne of Green Gables" with a murder, an investigation by Anne and her friends, and a side story with a ghost.

I'm walking home very happy when my magical girl wand starts to glow. Another mission awaits me!

Afterword

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