Snow Glass Apples: A Play For Voices
Neil Gaiman
A young princess … her skin as white as snow … her hair as black as coal ... her lips as red as blood … an innocent young girl victimized by her evil stepmother.Or is she? Neil Gaiman’s “Snow, Glass, Apples” turns the traditional “Snow White” fairytale on its head and tells the story from the point of view of the “wicked” stepmother, who knows the truth about this less-than-innocent girl and attempts to save the kingdom from her unnatural and monstrous stepdaughter.
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Oh my God this was so creepy. I'm fully in love with Gaiman's writing so I was expecting to love it but man, I'm not sure I have the words for how much he creeped me out in 5000 words. Snow, Glass, Apples is (as you might guess) a re-telling of Snow White in the viewpoint of Snow White's step-mother. It reminded me a bit of the little I've seen of Let Me In and it was that perfect balance of creepy and fantastical that Gaiman does so well. And the ending...I'm not sure what I was expecting but it sure as hell wasn't that level of fucked up magic. Highly, highly recommend this to anyone who's not afraid of some seriously twisted, creepy storytelling and best of all, it's free to read right now here:
http://thedreaming.joefulgham.com/1999/10/10/snow-glass-apples/
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