Killing Softly

Killing Softly

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Vaganova's Ballet Academy, Saint Petersburg - Winter 1973 "Look at me ! Did I do good ?" The little girl asked, still trying to ensure her posture and maintain while practicing her enclosing upper part of the foot on the floor, also known as the " en pointe" gesture. "Oh darling, look at you, being all stuck and clumsy..." The mother uttered, gently clapping on the upper side of her left leg, peeping on her watch to make sure they didn't miss the train to go back home. "Anna Karenine Chtchedrine, young lady, hurry up. It is already past eight darling, and you still haven't eaten your dinner to get all your superpowers..." The disabled mother whispered, starting to push on the wheelchair to join her little five years old girl. [...] Bolshoi Theater, Moscow- Spring 1979 "Mama! Mama!" Hums the little ballerina, scurrying to the teacher with her pinky ballet skirt and her undone bun. "Mama, will I ever become a Prima Ballerina, like you ? Mama, tell me!" The young girl asked while tugging at her mother's sleeve. " Maybe if you stop pulling on my woolen sweater, and if you closely pay attention so you can coordinate your moves to the piano, than maybe yes, you will..." She severely answers, putting a rebel wick of her chestnut hairs back in place, behind her rosy pierced ear. [...] Novodevitchi's Cemetery, Moscow - Fall 1991 "Mom, I didn't become the one you wanted me to. But I saved our country today. Oh, and I fell in love... I finally found someone to live with. Isn't that great ? He's an opponent, but I finally did something by my own... Please, be proud of me now." She silently tabled the bouquet on the tomb, and walked away, joining in silence the two mens of the FIS, ready to take her to the death hallway. She turned one more time to face her mother's grave, and lightly smiled, throwing a tiny diamond ring on the floor, before making her heels clap on the cold floor. "I'll handle it from here now, Jimin."
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"You're this gorgeous, ballet-dancer-poet who knows the bartender at the sexy underground club where you take this girl you just rescued from a slimeball at the bus station." She stunned herself with this revelation as she paced back and forth. "This can't be real. You can't be real. Are you secretly a prince too? Or maybe just a wealthy CEO of a big corporation?" "Did you say gorgeous?" he smirked. His charm was so disarming, but she couldn't let him in. She had too much to lose, too much to do. She couldn't let a boy get in the way of her promise to her mother. She mashed her palms into her eyes then looked at him to confirm he wasn't a mirage. He was still there. "Either you're a bad cliché or too good to be true. Neither one is what I need right now." She backed off further, "I've gotta go." He stepped towards her and she retreated more. "Don't," she said as turmoil swirled in her mind. "Clichés aren't all bad," he pleaded. NEON AFTERLIFE Alex's mother died when she was 15 and her father checked-out, turning to drugs and alcohol, so the day Alex turns 18 she leaves home. She wants to follow in her mother's footsteps as a dancer in the Miami City Ballet. She expects to have to work hard to achieve her dreams, but she doesn't expect her dreams to change. That's what happens when she's refused admission to the Miami City Ballet Academy and meets Jason, a dancer at the academy and aspiring poet. He helps her find her way in a new city and a way to get in front of the decision makers at the Academy, until a life changing injury causes Alex to re-think her future and her relationships. Can she hold on to love when everything she knows about herself is changed? How can she become a professional dancer when she's in a wheelchair and the doctors say she'll never dance again?

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