If I Die Before I Wake: Not all tales have the ever-after you might expect

The sleeping curse is genetic and hereditary and has been passed from mother to daughter throughout the centuries. Vreni’s is the grandmother was born in 1690, her mother in 1824. Vreni was in 1904, so she should be more than a century old, but her blood contains a sleeping curse. The curse was softened so that her grandmother wouldn’t die but only sleep, and so the women in her family have slept and woken throughout the centuries.

Vreni was born in 1904, so she should be more than a century...