Better endings III

So they called to Cinderella and told her the prince was there. She washed the cinders from her hands and face and stepped into the room. She bowed to the prince and he handed her the glass slipper saying, "Try this on. If it fits, you will be my wife."

Cinderella sat down to try on the glass slipper, but in all the fuss and excitement, the slipper shattered, sending many slivers of sharp glass into her foot. The wounds became infected and eventually, the foot turned gangrenous and was amputated.

Two weeks later, Prince Charming married a top-heavy, bleached blonde supermodel from Malibu.