The Briar in the Brain
This is an essay I wrote for my Advanced Writing course and read aloud today. ----------- The Briar in the Brain Once upon a time, a princess known as the beautiful Briar Rose was born to a king and a queen. At her birth ceremony, an evil fairy cursed the princess so that she would prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die. The third good fairy partially reversed the curse so that the princess would not die, but merely fall asleep once that day came. With the curse’s fulfillment, the three good fairies made all the castle’s people fall asleep as well, and a hedge of thorns grew to block the castle and hinder anyone from getting to the princess. One day a prince was traveling through the land. An old man told him the belief that there was a castle behind the thorn hedge, with a beautiful princess asleep inside. Though he was warned that many other princes had tried to penetrate the hedge and had died in the thorns, he went forth, and when he came to the thorn hedge, it turned i...