GFT Retrospective #25: The Lamp

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Today, I'm wrapping up the Retrospective on Grimm Fairy Tales Volume #4 with its short story.

GFT Short Story #4: The Lamp

This follows immediately from the events recounted in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. A raiding party, led by a lecherous prince, is sent to retrieve a lamp from the Sorcerer’s chambers. This lamp just so happens to contain Belinda, whom the Sorcerer cursed with PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER (and an itty-bitty living space) in his dying breath. Because cursed object, famous last words, and Murphy’s Law, the prince’s ship is wrecked in a storm and the lamp finds its way to shore. There’s some debate among fans as to whether this is the same shipwreck we will see in The Little Mermaid and/or The Jungle Book in the near future, but the focus of this short story is meant to be the lamp.
Long before he joined Sinbad’s crew, before he knew how to cook, before pots were anything more than headgear and a name, when he was still able to say more than “yes” or “no,” Pots was a curious young boy in Baghdad who discovered a lamp on a beach and brought it home for his father to spiff up and sell. But since they’re characters in a story, and not real people with sense, neither of them knows that you should never, ever, rub an oil lamp unless you are prepared and able to choose your words carefully. To be continued in Sinbad Volume 2: City Of the Dead.

If you're tuned in and not just skimming because Trump cancelled your medical insurance and you can't afford your ADHD medication anymore, tune back in next time for another old essay of mine in New Piece Offerings.

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