To Both Sanity and Madness

  Okay, I know what you are going to say, but I have a very good excuse as to why I'm doing this... fine, maybe I do not, but let me explain you some things. When I saw what the comission was about, I loved the idea and instantly decided to participate with The Little Mermaid. However, it took me almost a month to remember that Snow White is my least favorite princess ever.

Like, seriously, I don't know why, but all the love I feel for the little mermaid suddenly turnes into hatred when it comes to Snow White. At first I said "Well, it's just because you didn't watch that movie much growing up" but then I read the fairy tale and it remained my least favorite. I'm sorry if you like her, I just... I don't know what's wrong with me, but I really do have an issue with her.

On the other hand, I assume that, as Snow White is a very famous chracter, there will be tons of stories and works with her being actually mean and nasty to the queen and, although, initially, this story was supposed to give an excuse for my hatred for the young princess, it ended up transforming the queen in a hero. Really, I'm as surprised as you are.

Given the fact that the queen does not have a name in the story and instead is only called the "the evil queen" in the way Ursula has no name at all and is just known as "the sea witch". I simply cut things in "the queen" because, you know... she's not supposed to be evil in this story, which is why I couldn't be callling her her "the evil queen".

This story is 1,310 words long and I'm fifteen years old. Also, a friend suggested that I added that I'm Mexican and English isn't my mother language.  

By the way, and although the art I used for the cover isn't mine either, it is at least owned by someone I know and who politely drew it for me. So... thanks for my sister! <3

To Both Sanity and Madness

It started with simple things, so subtly that she almost missed it herself.

After her husband's, the king's, death his young daughter, barely a young girl at the time, started having these... peculiarities. She talked to herself and then answered, thinking it was the animals that replied.

It was just a childish game, the queen thought. She'd be fine, with time.

Time, however, only seemed to make matters worse, and soon Snow White was talking not only to mice and birds, but to inanimate objects as well, like brooms and hairbrushes. Also, she would refuse to change into clean clothes, arguing that her father would not recognize her if she wore a different dress, even when the one that had been her favorite in the past didn't really fit her anymore and the color of the fabric had faded.

The grief had made her lose her mind, the queen dwelled on sorrowfully. That young girl, her stepdaughter, was no longer the innocent child her father had left behind when he'd died, but a different, darker version of herself that could not process any information that did not please her and preferred to fool herself into thinking that she didn't know about it.

She had to do something, the queen decided. She was getting old herself and would soon pass away, while the only heir to the throne was Snow White. The king and she had never been able to conceive a child of their own, and although she had learned to love the little princess as her own daughter, taking the place of a mother that had died before time, at the moment Snow White was in no condition to make any important decisions, let alone rule a whole country.

She had to do something, save her kingdom and her stepdaughter, at the same time. She owned the deceased king that much.

The queen was widely known as 'the fairest if them all', for she bore an undeniable beauty in every step she took and every blink of her green eyes. However, that title wasn't nearly as superficial as it sounded.