The Sleeping Beauty woke with a heartbeat between her legs.
Five classic fairy tales. Five different accounts of betrayal, of power, and rage. Sleeping Beauty. The Snow Queen. Snow White. The Frog Princess. Rapunzel. All are facets of the same person, and that person wakes, as the original Sleeping Beauty does, with a baby sucking the needle from her finger. This story explores how the princesses deal with their rape and forced motherhood, and how - within the confines of their own stories, aided by poison apples and mirror fragments, by long hair and glass coffins and golden balls - they wreak their bloody vengeance.
Winner of the 2017 Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novelette/novella.
Five classic fairy tales. Five different accounts of betrayal, of power, and rage. Sleeping Beauty. The Snow Queen. Snow White. The Frog Princess. Rapunzel. All are facets of the same person, and that person wakes, as the original Sleeping Beauty does, with a baby sucking the needle from her finger. This story explores how the princesses deal with their rape and forced motherhood, and how - within the confines of their own stories, aided by poison apples and mirror fragments, by long hair and glass coffins and golden balls - they wreak their bloody vengeance.
Winner of the 2017 Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novelette/novella.
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