Amputating Truth: The Dangerous Blur Between Story and Reality

<![CDATA[In the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella, far grittier than the sanitized Disney retelling, the wicked stepsisters commit a desperate act. Determined that the prince’s glass slipper must fit, one slices off a toe, the other a heel, each in turn cramming her mutilated feet into the delicate shoe. They limp forward smiling, willing reality to conform to their chosen story. But the blood dripping from the slipper betrays them.]]>