by Karen Morris

Created on: June 15, 2007

Evil under the thatch indeed! Fairy Land was left reeling this morning when the Rough Justice team from the Land of Nod exposed its Little Red Riding Hood' tale as a hoax. The award winning Sleepy TV series undertook an investigation into the story. There has been a long-standing claim by the Motherhood of Wolves and Rabbits' that the story was blatantly untrue and had damaged the good name of wolves ever since its release.

The Fairy Land department for New Releases originally published the story two years ago. It now appears that chronicle was nothing more than a dastardly attempt give Fairy Tales a harder edge' to compete with other, darker yarns. Undercover agents infiltrated the organization disguised as cleaners where they uncovered several variations of a plot to kill Nana' in the kitchen garden. More digging uncovered the storyboard for the tale we know and love as Little Red Riding Hood'.

It was the eyewitness account of Little Red herself that always gave the tale substance but she has now admitted that on the morning in question she left the house without her glasses - at her mother request. Rough Justice discovered from her close friends that the celebrity is extremely short sighted and wears contact lenses at all her engagements. The starlet has been under virtual house arrest by her army of fans as they surrounded Hoodie Palace demanding to know the truth.

Mother and Grandma have gone into hiding since the revelations that the wolf' was actually Grandma cunningly camouflaged in a fur coat and a cardboard mask. The woodcutter too is staying out of sight, although his agent is considering offers from several tabloids to come clean'. Demonstrators are gathering outside the offices of Fairy Land Central demanding the reinstatement of Wolfie Goodboy as the town mayor.

What this narrator would really like to know is - could this literally be the end' for Fairy Tales?

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