A modern fairy tale in which
Honey Burke finds her prince
and makes him immortal.
After singing her way up through every
illegal beer joint in NYC's Hell's Kitchen,
Honey Burke gets her big break, the
Headline Singer at a top speakeasy -
from which she is appropriated by Big
Augie Farrell, a Chicago Mobster.
The rest of the story is concerned with
her search for validation, "cosmic" proof that
she matters. And that pursuit
ultimately leads her to her "prince."
Excerpt
Prologue:
Those who require their fairy
stories to be from an olden
time so they can believe in
them, and short enough that
they do not lose faith in that
belief, will find one below which
is very old, and very, very short:
Once upon a magic time,
Nee-am of the Golden Hair,
daughter of the King of Tir-na-nOg,
The Land of The Forever Young,
left her father's kingdom on a
snow white horse, in search
of the perfect lover. She didn't
know who he was but in her
heart she knew that when she
found him she would recognize
him. One day, riding across a
meadow on her snow white
horse, she came upon the
young man named Usheen,
and the moment she saw
him knew that he was The One.
And he, too, knew that she
was The One. And so, when
she asked him to climb up
behind her on her snow white
steed and ride with her, he did.
And after the honeymoon, she
returned with him to her
father's kingdom and thus,
she made her prince an
immortal.
For a longer and much newer
fairy story, turn the page:
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Chapter 1
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ONCE UPON A TIME, in the
magical year of 1929, a girl
with golden hair and a frown
that marred her beautiful face,
was being driven north on
Chicago's Sheridan Road in
Big Augie Farrell's big, black,
bullet-proof limousine, and her
angry thoughts explained the
reason for her frown:
Anybody asts me, a girl should
oughta be in charge a her own
story - wich this is the numb a
the thing, the gorilla don't ast
me nothin!
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Reviews for "HONEY"
Reviewed by Amy Kelly
4/26/2002
Go, Honey!
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