Seriously, some of the ideas of what kind of Cinderella story I would tell just *rock*. I ought to give you a list of the fairy tales I’m thinking of doing for the lil short story collection, and see what twists /you/ think I’m going to put on them, and send a copy of the collection to the people whose ideas I steal, uh, am inspired by. :)
Actually, while I’m definitely going to do that at some point (not this week), I’ve got this idea in my head to do it along themes: Glass would be one, Beast would be another. I’m sure there are lots of other potentials as well, where I could pull together half a dozen stories with some common element to re-tell, though I immediately start subdividing–I mean, do you put Snow White under ‘glass’ or ‘sleep’? Or under ‘wicked’ with a common theme of wicked stepmothers? (Though what’s his face used WICKED as a title, so I dunno if I should)
Anyway, I’m inclined to do GLASS first, and do Cinderella, The Glass Mountain, The Red Shoes, maybe Snow White, and…find a couple others that would fit, apparently. (BEAST is easy–BatB, Bluebeard, Snow White & Rose Red, The Wounded Lion…okay, maybe I should do collections of 4 stories, not 6…:))
In, you know, my copious free time. :)
It’s now hard for me to think of Snow White without thinking of Gaiman’s “Snow, Glass, Apples”. So good.
Having never read it, I don’t have that problem. :)
I think it liked it mostly because I felt like it worked well as a Play for Voices…Bebe Neuwirth did the recording.