96. Fairy Tales: Rewrite a fairy tale. Give it a new ending or make it modern or write as a poem.
I’ve always love fractured fairy tales, possibly because of watching too much Rocky and Bullwinkle when I was a kid. Shrek was a story that took fairy tale characters and re-purposed them so they had full personalities that were askew. There is something delicious about the wicked step sisters being bartenders and the fairy god mother being an power-hungry controlling bitch. The TV series Once Upon a Time is another twist of the traditional stories.
I would not let Snow White take the turn that it did. I’m not excited about the queen ordering Snow’s murder but we’ll start with that. When the queen asks the mirror who’s the fairest in the land, the mirror confronts the queen with her jealousy of a teen girl and perhaps the queen needs some therapy. The queen confronts her own vanity and pettiness so she sends the woodsman to find Snow and return her to the castle. Since Snow wouldn’t trust the queen, given the whole murder order and all, they attend family therapy. They don’t become best friends but the queen quits taking out her inadequacies on Snow and Snow feels safe in her home. And they lived happily ever after.
