Lovely! You've captured the essence of the ballet, and also allowed the background of the story to be revealed, and you cleverly chose when to put in the flashbacks.

Beautiful.

Great story! I really, really enjoyed it :)

ivealways been very confused about the nutcracker. i no longer am. yay!~

CUTE! (k, just so you know, when I'm sleepy, that's pretty much the only word I can think of to describe something I like... and I'm sleepy.. I'll read this again tomorrow... *pinky promise*)

Oh, my... that was wonderful! I wish I could live in a fairy tale like that... *sigh*. It was written beautifully; the style really did sound like an old fairy tale being told. I lved it. The only mistake I saw in the whole thing (though I was admittedly distracted by the story) was the very first sentence: "...getting to know her that Clara that she was the sweetest child..." Your grammar is a little confused there... need to take out a "that, or something. But that's all. Beautiful job!