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The
FreakShow.By Steven Donnini
Copyright 2010Steven Donnini
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At a farm house just outside Quitman, Texas the
Larva family is sitting down to Sunday dinner.
Sweet corn on the cob, summer squash and fried yard
bird.
Danny just passed his 21 birthday announces, Im
joining the circus. Ill have my own act. Dog
Boy, born half man, half dog, raised as a dog in a
farm house and discovered in the back woods of East
Texas.
The news of Danny being transformed into Dog Boy
the circus freak is greeted with mixed emotions.
Bob Dannys Dad asks, What the fuck is wrong with
you? Eat your dinner and shut your trap. Youre
not going anywhere. I need you around here to help
with the peaches.
Madame Larva (Big Momma) is convinced that this
development will lead to disaster for his resume.
But it will get Danny out of the house and a steady
paycheck. There are many questions one of which is
about how he will take the two dogs Little and Chi
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Chi. After all she doesnt want them around without
Danny, they know no other master?
Danny has some answers, Im going to take Little
and Chi Chi along as my Mom and Dad in the show.
Madame lights her glass pipe, But people arent
that stupid.
Danny, Laura assured me that they are. She said
they will believe anything.
Granpa, Whos Laura? A slut?
Fly, Looks like what they put on the cover of The
Globe the supermarket tabloid.
Bob, Getting those useless mutts off the davenport
and out from under foot, thats a plus.
Fly, All they do is chase Peaches around in
circles.
Bob eating a corn on the cob, They scare the
customers too.
Danny, Thats not their fault.
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Bob, People arent afraid of them, its you that
scares them.
Danny, Thats bull.
Bob, What about that little girl.
Danny, What?
Bob, You know what.
Madame, That kid was just upset because Chi Chi
bit her mother in the ankle.
Sister Fly, Yeah, the sight of blood does that.
Danny, Thats why Im leaving home. No one can
talk to me about what I want to do with my life.
Bob, But so far all we heard was how you are going
to become a freak show carnie. What do you
expect.
Madame, Yeah, I didnt raise you to become a
carnie.
Danny, Well what did you expect?
Madame, We thought you would become a insurance
broker or a car salesmen.
Bob, Like the Duck insurance company AFLAC.
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Danny, So, I tried some different stuff. But
things didnt work out.
Bob, You lost that job at the lumber yard.
Danny, That wasnt my fault.
Bob, That was the biggest fire in the towns
history.
Danny, Youll never let me forget that.
Fly, At school when the volunteer firefighters
come to do a show and tell, they always show
pictures of the lumber yard fire.
Madame, Yeah, youre already famous Danny.
Danny, Gee thanks.
Bob, Like that woman we saw on TV who burned
herself up with a cigarette.
Fly, That was spontaneous combustion.
Bob, What?
Fly, Sometimes people just explode into flames.
Bob, What a bunch of crap.
Fly, They say it happens all the time.
Bob, Youre full of it.
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Fly, There was this guy who was out drinking with
a woman in a Karaoke Bar in Dallas. He just
exploded. Just like that. Poof.
Madame, His wife walked in and hit him over the
head with a coke bottle.
Bob, Damn that must hurt.
Once committed to the freak show entertainment
opportunity Bob and Danny spend weeks working on
the broke down motor home that has been parked in
the yard. It was in a dilapidated condition and
needed a complete over hall and custom paint job to
help promote the Dog Boy Show. Bob is a great farm
equipment mechanic. So he worked on the motor,
breaks and pluming. Danny cleaned out the interior
and grew out enough hair to make it all believable.
Fly painted a graphic across both sides of the
motor home that was her best effort at doggy
portraits of Little, Chi Chi and Dog Boy. Then she
painted across the sides See The Amazing Dog Boy.
Half Man, Half Dog. They were in a bit of a time
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crunch because the first engagement was just 16
days away in Shreveport, LA. where he would meet up
with Laura at the Hanson Entertainment Shows.
As Bob, Danny, Fly, Madame and Grandpa stood in the
driveway looking at collective talent to transform
the motor home into a traveling Freak Show Home.
Bob says, Well my boy, see what the Larvas can
accomplish when we put our talents to work.
Danny, Wow. Shes a beauty.
Fly, The paint job makes it special.
Grandpa, Cant believe what you did with that hunk
of crap.
Madame, If things dont work out maybe we can sell
it.
Danny, Thanks for the confidence builder Mom.
Bob, Well, got to admit Danny your resume has a
few gopher holes.
Fly, I think youll do great Danny. And even if
you dont, think of all the corny dogs and cotton
candy you can eat.
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On the midway of the Hanson Entertainment Freak
Show, Danny and the dogs have settled into the Dog
Boy exhibit for the next show.
The exhibit looks like a window display in a
Natural History Museum. The background is a
natural East Texas piney woods setting. Pine tree
trunks, a convincing painted of a pine forest on
the back wall, a lean two, three camping bowls and
a small campfire where Danny, Little and Chi Chi
are posed for the people who walk by.
Beside them in a display is a beaded woman named
Marie. She is an old timer, been on the show since
1985 when it belonged to another company and she
was a young woman of 30. Her beard started growing
when she was 16 years old. She quickly gave up on
shaving because she had a 5:00 shadow at noon. Her
school mates in White River Vermont never quit
teasing her. No matter how many times the school
teachers punished the bullies, it never let up.
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She is a shy but resigned to her fate as a freak.
She was married once but he ran off with a man with
no arms. A thalidomide baby from the 50s when
many children were born with flippers for arm and
legs. He said he was looking for a mate that needed
him for moral support and compassion.
She didnt think being a thalidomide baby boy was
any worse than a woman with thick facial hair. But
life goes on and Marie makes a good living and
finds acceptance with the carnies. Danny and Marie
have lively conversation between shows. Marie does
love dogs. On the other side of Dannys exhibit is
the surly The Alligator Man who they call Al.
He is floating in a swamp setting wearing an
alligator head and skins over a wetsuit. It is
very convincing for the smell of pee. Al drinks
beer 24-7 and cant take pee breaks so he just pees
in the pool. His arms and legs look like human
ones with alligator skin. But all this covering is
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itchy and hot even in the water tank he floats
around in.
The attraction Talker is a 22 year old man named
William who was a Tall man (on stilts) at one
point but decided to be a talker because hes a
great crowd announcer and attracts spenders.
The show starts with William walking out into the
midway crowd towering to 7 feet tall wearing an Abe
Lincoln suit and stove top hat. He starts his talk
with a high sound piercing voice . Hay there
citizens, I have a story to tell about a young baby
boy is miraculously born to two dogs, his mother
Chi Chi and father Little in the piney woods of
East Texas. How could that be? But seeing is
believing. He walks on all fours, eats and sleeps
with his mom Chi Chi and dad Little. He can bark
like a hound, case birds though the forest and out
run the county game Warden. Theres a legion among
the people who live deep in the woods that until
they walked out of the woods to avoid a forest
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fire, the dog family was only seen on nights of the
full moon. Like werewolves they were relentlessly
hunted and the legion of the Dog Boy grew. Now for
the price of a Sunday newspaper you can see the
entire family in their natural setting. Plus for
the same ticket price, in her fully natural facial
hair, the world famous Marie the Bearded Woman.
But thats not all, see The Alligator Man. You
will be amazed and shocked at the man that is Al
The Alligator Man.
The visitors gate opens for people to walk by the
viewing displays . They stop and pear in at Danny
feeding and playing with the dogs.
One 10 year old Kid says, That little white dog is
ugly. Yuck, Dog Boy is giving them food from his
mouth.
Mother, Henry, Dog Boy is licking his gonads.
Henry, His own? Hay thats sickening, man.
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Another Father, Hay buddy thats not something
kids should see. Henry walks back to the Freak
Show gate. William is counting the money.
Henry, What the fuck is going on here. You got
this guy Dog Boy licking his nads. Sick fuck.
William See the sign. We are not responsible for
what the freaks do that may offend you.
Henry, I want my money back.
William, This is a one way ticket Pal.
Henry, Were out of here.
Two teenage boys buy tickets for them and their
girl friends.
Teen boy, I told you about the freak that licks
his nads.
Girl, His own balls? I got to see this.
Al The Alligator Man is yelling at Danny, You son
of a bitch. Thats cheating you are getting people
to come back by doing that.
Danny, Im half dog, so I can do whatever dogs
do.
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Marie The Bearded Lady, Since were looking for
new ways to improve the show, have you ever seen an
Armenian womans beard?
Al, Yeah. You have one on your face.
Marie The Bearded Lady, Not that one.
William, Have you been hiding something?
The Bearded Lady, Not really. But if it will get
more customers Ill show it off.
Al, Dont be bashful Marie.
William, Lets take a look.
Marie The Bearded Lady, Sure you cant see
anything because of the long hair. See.
She pulls up her dress to reveal another full beard
growing in her crotch. See, there are many
Armenian bearded woman.
Danny, Jesus that looks like one of the guitar
players in ZZ Top.
William, Wow just look at that thing is growing
down to your knees.
Al, Wait, let me take a look.
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He climbs out of his exhibit and walks over to her.
William, Get the hell back in there.
Al, Kiss my tookis. Al takes a long look. That
thing is amazing. Its like a Rabbis beard.
William announces, For the price of a corny dog
see the amazing Armenian Bearded woman with two
beards one on each end of the pie hole.
William, Oh nice. Thats why they call it a
Freak Show.
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