The Huntsman’s Dilemma by Paula Gail Benson
It’s
odd finding your heart’s desire in a glass coffin in the woods--her skin so
white, she looks like a vampire. I wonder, did my true love kiss revive her, or
was the poisoned apple dislodged from her throat when the pall bearers jostled
her body on the way to her burial?
What
makes me feel like Romeo in Juliet’s tomb? How did I get a happily ever after when
Shakespeare’s ill-fated sweethearts faced tragedy?
And,
what’s with this version where the wicked queen attends our wedding and is forced
to dance to her untimely demise in red-hot shoes?
© Paula Gail Benson, all rights reserved
See: “. . . the queen arrives at the wedding to investigate and is
shocked to find that the bride is Snow White. She is frozen with rage and fear,
but when the Queen was about to start a pandemonium, the prince, who recognizes
her as a threat to his kingdom, orders for her to wear a pair of red-hot iron
slippers and dance in them until she drops dead for the attempted murder of
Snow White, so that the wedding will peacefully continue.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White
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