Fairy Tales
Ideal vs Real
Treasure vs Measure
Our scales teeter and collapse under the weight of our fantasies.
Sleeping Beauty still sleeps and Rapunzel stays imprisoned in her tower, Snow White still waits for Prince Charming in her coffin of glass, and Cinderella died from lung disease. The happy endings ; nothing more than a figmant of the ideal by which we measure the value of our lives, always teetering on the “what ifs” that never come.
Bite Me 
January 20, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Gritty use of fairy tale characters.
January 20, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Cl;ever use of the prompt.
Sorry to hear about Cinderella!
January 20, 2010 at 9:32 pm
thanx, you’re lucky I didn’t tell you what really happened to Rapunzel!!
January 20, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Reality always stomps on fantasy, doesn’t it? I enjoyed your take on this prompt!
January 20, 2010 at 9:11 pm
I wish I could put something together like this when I was wide awake, let alone half-asleep and dead tired.
I think you have hit the truth of fantasy – that is all it will ever be. People live and die, we all move on. Happy endings are rarely true.
January 20, 2010 at 9:13 pm
You rock. Thanx. When I wake up this weekend I’ll catch up on your stuff!!
January 20, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Yeah, but that one about the princess kissing the frog – that was true, wasn’t it?
January 21, 2010 at 12:14 am
Yes, but they didn’t mention that the frog was the poisonous kind. She died in his arms if that makes you happy
January 21, 2010 at 5:00 am
Too funny!
January 21, 2010 at 6:47 am
There is a bright side – Snow White is still shacked up with the 7 dwarfs…
January 21, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Great work, it peels the sugar coating away. It reminds me of the much darker original Hans Christian Andersen version of “The Little Mermaid” before it became Disney-fied.
January 22, 2010 at 12:33 am
Oh No … not Cinderella
great piece…. funny:) – love the line – “Our scales teeter and collapse under the weight of our fantasies.”
I am guilty of still looking for happy endings:)
January 23, 2010 at 3:24 am
curled up in a fetal position in the corner now. I have this picture of Snow White stuck in my head. She is clawing on the glass top of her coffin, screaming as she uses up the remaining oxygen….
January 23, 2010 at 12:18 pm
I like the irony contained in it!
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January 26, 2010 at 3:41 am
Yes, the secret ending to all fairy tales. What we would find out should they be interviewed by Barbara Walters! A great use of the 3ww! 🙂