“Fairy tales have happy endings. All of us know what happened in that mushy fairy tale, Cinderella. Yeah, it’s romantic, the prince actually finding Cinderella. They lived happily ever after. But happy endings can sometimes be, well…boring. No zing. So predictable. What if the shoe fit one of the sisters? What happens then? Play with your imagination here. Be funny if you like. Or serious if you feel like it. Or be an Alfred Hitchcock. Whatever you are into, write your ending to the Cinderella story—but this time, make it so that the shoe fit one of the icky sisters. What does Prince Charming do? How does Cinderella cope with it? And what about the Fairy Godmother? Start your story here.”
So let’s recap: Prince Charming is trying to find the girl of his dreams and comes across a glass slipper that an enchanting woman left behind after leaving the royal ball. He’s now out searching the countryside looking for that woman and comes across the house where Cinderella, her to stepsisters, and the wicked stepmother all live. Miraculously, the glass slipper fits perfectly on one of the stepsister’s feet, so he proposes to her immediately and they ride off into the sunset together leaving Cinderella, the other stepsister, and the wicked stepmother together again for eternity.
We’re going to say that this story is set in France because one of the first written accounts of this story was penned by a Frenchman. (Actually, the Wikipedia page for Cinderella has some great history on where the story came from, so check it out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella.) Prince Charming decides to take his new bride to Normandy to show off the magnificent cliffs and the charming little towns in order to show her that he is as strong, strapping, and masculine as the Normans who invaded Great Britain from these same beaches so many years ago.
The honeymoon was all fine and dandy and both are happily in love with one another—until they get back to Prince Charming’s castle. The raving bitch rears her head and a maelstrom of forces comes down on the poor prince. To get away from his psychotic harpy of a wife, the prince walks the castle grounds and meets up with one of his favorite servants, Groundskeeper Henri. Henri’s been outside working all day and has just come back to his cabin to take his shirt off and relax for a moment. Just as the shirt is coming off is when Prince Charming knocks on the door and realizes how beautiful Henri really is. Unbeknownst to the prince, Henri has always had a soft spot in his heart for the prince too.
The two wine and dine together for many a night, keeping a respectable distance from one another as to keep things proper, when one day the prince has an idea. He goes over to Henri’s cabin in the afternoon to start making dinner for the two of them, and when Henri comes back from the day’s labors, the prince proceeds to shove glass after glass of wine at the poor boy. Being a Frenchman Henri obliges the prince until the prince comes over, grab’s Henri’s crotch, gives it a little pat, smiles, and walks away. This was the signal Henri had been waiting for after all these years. The two make passionate man-love all evening long and run away together the next day to Bordeaux to drink wine and fornicate together for the rest of their lives.
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