(Flash fiction character introduction)
Boudoir Elite
In 1965 they were the city’s true blood establishment, past faded winners of local beauty pageants, and now resplendent in their disdain of all things deemed inferior! They were the old vipers who use to meet at the coffee shop for their morning swig of caffeinated venom? They had hair that was teased into a bouffant and doused in spray lacquer. Their blood-red lipstick smeared on their coffee cup and their crooked smiles.
Smoke drifted from their mentholated Kools that seemed permanently stuck between yellowed fingers. The only thing that smells worse than the stinging smoke lingering around them, was the fetid bath waters they soaked in.
Their only purpose in life was to make sure they had it all. Unfortunately with no understanding, much less an appreciation of the effort required to produce anything, they could only consume. They were like the sows in the pen, mindlessly eating anything in their trough and defecating on anything else.
To someone willing to patronize and feed them, they were the perfect tools of destruction. All one had to do was to heard them in a direction and watch them devour the designated target. Yvonne Gregoire, wife to the mayor and President of Cities Fine Arts Council, knew precisely how to drive this sounder of swine.
-Clarence Holm
A flash fiction exercise in character development, comments or suggestions are welcome.
PrairieChat 
So happy I never won a beauty pageant 🙂 But I’ve definitely known some of these women…they can cut you off at the knees with a glance. And ruin your reputation with a well whispered word in the right ears…YIKES!!!
Glad I don’t know them, you made them VERY real – horrid old bags!
I think small towns caused this type of behavior. So little chance of success that any advantage had to be exploited.