Fractured Fairytales: Sleeping Beauty

Oh, well, we all know about Prince Charming. He traffics in saviorship - Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel.

But let's say Sleeping Beauty wakes up without him. A wasp, for instance, flies in the window and rousts her with a stinging kiss. Or a chunk of masonry gives way from her turret ceiling and plummets down onto her bed.

Dazedly, she peers out the window. She's surrounded by a murky forest so dense, a thicket so staggering in its complexity, we're hard pressed to imagine how she'll find a way to leave the castle. Surely, she wants to breathe a fresher air in an open space, perhaps a meadow where the sight of sun and moon are unhindered?

We could airdrop her some power tools, but how un-fairytale like is that? How about we send in a very large bird, engineer an avian extraction?

Well, that's chapter one or chapter 100. The question is, how come the story isn't from Beauty's point of view? What if she did wake up on her own?

"Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you,
as a fish out of water hears the waves.....
Come back. Come back.
This turning toward what you deeply love saves you."

~Rumi