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Title: Sleeping Beauty: The Long and Short of It – Minus the Long of It

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Once upon a time there was a king and queen.

They wanted a baby very badly.

Then the queen gave birth to a baby girl.

At her birthday party, all the good fairies were invited, but they forgot to invite the evil one.

I'm beginning to wonder if that was on purpose.

The good fairies give the girl – Aurora – silly gifts like a good singing voice and beauty.

The evil one shows up uninvited – did they really think they could keep her away? – and curses Aurora.

On her sixteenth birthday, she'll prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die.

Honestly.

They really should educate all fairies, because the stupid ones turn out evil.

You can't DIE from pricking your FINGER.

sigh

Anyway, one of the good fairies that hasn't bestowed a gift yet says that instead of dying, Aurora will prick her finger and sleep for a hundred years.

Oh.

My.

God.

Someone tell these fairies to go to school.

On Aurora's sixteenth birthday, she finds a spinning wheel and pricks her finger on the needle.

She falls asleep.

A hundred years later, a prince is riding through the area when he finds an abandoned castle in the middle of a very thick forest.

He cuts his way through with his sword and goes inside the castle.

He somehow knows to go to the highest room in the tallest tower, because princesses always hang out there.

He finds Aurora.

He must have heard about Snow White, because he kisses a seemingly dead body full on the lips.

She is revived and wakes up.

Again, I personally think they banged heads.

They marry and live happily ever after.

Why Aurora didn't show a single sign of ageing over a hundred years, we shall never know.

The evil fairy is completely forgotten, as is the trend with "the bad guy" in most fairy tales.

THE END