"It was great wasn't it?" said the man to himself, the noise could be heard from the stage. The dim light of the dressing table made his round features sharper

"I guess, I mean you could have done better, you can always do better" the little man said, reflecting no emotion whatsoever in his face.

The room was hot and there was a red light coming from beneath the door, the tiny room was filled with customs, masks and feathers, lots of feathers. The man was looking deeply in the mirror, making faces to test what they looked like, the little man kept staring at the big man.

"You mother was here tonight" said the little man with a deep soar voice. His eyes piercing in that grinning man

"Let's not talk about it, please" said the man, trying to look happy and impressed, even he knew those expressions wouldn't fool anyone, so he moved on to sad faces; those were easy.

"We need to, you mess up the routine every time she shows up. If you've got some issues with her that's your business, but if you mess up with my act, then it's my business as well" said the little man.

"Look, I'll just tell her to stop coming" said the man, feeling the cheap flowered tapestry was moving, making the room narrower.

"You've said that before, Ally" the little man had yet not change his cold expression, his eyes were still fixed in the other man's face

"Don't call me Ally! I'm Albert the Amazing now, let's just leave this for tomorrow, we have to go back in one hour" said Albert the Amazing, still looking at the mirror, he was no longer trying to make any faces, he was just avoiding the little man's judging glare.

"You filthy stupid boy, you can't just be an ungrateful bastard and run away from her. She is your mother you piece of scum!" said the little man, with what could appear to be a furious expression, but was still his cold empty glare.

"Shut up! You have no idea what that woman did to me, if any, she should be grateful I didn't sue her" said scared Ally, trying to scape from the monsters which made him join the showbiz.

"Sue your own mother? You should be stoned to dead, no matter what she did, she sacrificed it all for you" said the little man

"You don't know what you're talking about, the only gave up being a whore and an alcoholic spouse who beat daily. I owe nothing to anyone, now just shut the fuck up"said the crying Albert the Amazing

"You are nothing, you will never be anything but little Ally grown in the trail park with your whore mother and bastard brothers. You think you're so great making it out of the trailer and going to the cities? You're the same piece of trash you were" said the little man, still scowling Albert.

"Shut up! Shut up!" said the man, as he stood up, grabbed the little man by the hair and crashed him into the mirror. He hit the little man several times, until the shatters of the mirror started hurting his hand.Then the door was opened.

"Excuse me sir, your act is in one hour" said a girl in the door with a schedule in her hand, with an empty expression, she didn't seem to notice the broken mirror, or the bleeding hand, or the violence.

"I know, I'll be ready" the man said, letting go of the little man's hair.

"How should I present you?" asked the bubble gum chewing girl, making a bubble.

"Albert the Amazing" he said, looking at his bleeding hand.

"And you are a..." said the girl, trying to guess by his props.

"Ventriloquist" he said annoyed, pointing at the little man with a face filled with glasses; a little man made of wax.





by I'm the penguin