“Don't be a
show off.”
Gene Simmons*
#quote
Today I
wondered how many leprechauns have filed for restraining orders.
The
Magnificent's Secret
The audience
clapped when Jasmine, the magician's assistant, teleported without
any smoke or mirrors right in front of their very eyes. All she did
was spin in that wonderful dress of hers and she appeared on another
part of the stage. People called Yonder the Magnificent the best
magician of them all. Though many did think he needed a better name.
But Reggie couldn't change his stage name, especially after hitting
it so big, so he regretted his choice. Other impossible tricks were
performed, without the usual coverings that magicians needed. An
escape trick with no possibility for a trap door. People tried to use
cameras and those who debunked magicians worked for months with
nothing to show for it.
The magician
did have to reveal his secret, to a circle of a few close friends.
One is the actress who voiced Jasmine, and looked just like her in
case people needed to meet her in person. Because the thing is, the
impossibility of his tricks did not lie in real magic as some who
gave up after much investigation, but in hidden science. Everything
on the stage existed as a hologram. Reggie was a scientist and
anything could happen when nothing was real.
Sometimes him
or his assistant did need to swap out with the illusions, that
required great timing. But for the most part everyone in the entire
theater watched a recording. Long ago Reggie invented the technology,
and to get an unbiased opinion on how it looked, set it up in a
little theater and made himself Yonder the Magnificent. The degree
people were fooled was amazing. The manager of that little theater
where he started, a few of the workers there and his assistant
Jasmine are the only ones who know the secret and have been close
friends over the many years they have carefully guarded the
technology.
Reggie's great
hologram technology could be helping everyone all over the world,
however when fame and fortune knocks on your door, there are many
things you'd keep a secret.
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