![]() ![]() Maybe some fairy tales are just too scary to even think about. Maybe some fairy tales don’t even really need to be told, because they live inside of us, scaring us with their witches and their evil spells, making us wonder if maybe this time the prince won’t come in time, the princess won’t wake up, and maybe for once there won’t be any happily ever after. ![]() Maybe Randy New-man doesn’t need to sing their songs. Maybe it’s that some fairy tales don’t need to be computer animated. Sometimes I wonder why Disney never took to Rapunzel, why they never tried to take that story and put it on lunch boxes and in video stores and on pink sweatshirts. A slight turn of the head, a fast good-bye, a faraway look in the eyes. Sometimes the bricks are easy to see, hard things that you bump up against when you try to touch someone. We build these walls around ourselves, placing bricks between us and everyone else, telling ourselves that we’re just protecting ourselves, just staying safe. We all have these elaborate mechanisms to take care of our disappointments, our sadness, our pain. That things are going to get better, or that things can’t possibly get any worse. Brad Barkley is the author of the novel, Money, Love, which was a Barnes and Noble 'Discover Great New Writers' selection and one of theYear’s Best as named by the Washington Post. “It’s funny, really, all the ways we tell ourselves every day that things are going to be okay. AUTHOR Brad Barkley Literature & Fiction Sign in to Follow Follow Brad Barkley to get new release emails from Audible and Amazon. ![]()
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