If you ask any writer, I suspect they will most likely tell you that we as humans convey information by means of story. If you ask any moral philosopher, they will most likely tell you the same thing. Work on narrative extends even further to a host of academic disciplines.[1] A broad overview of theoretical physics will tell you the story of the universe. Modern psychology hinges on the notion of the ‘storied nature of human conduct.’[2] Current AI research finds much of its present work determined by narrative.[3] Indeed, there are few professions that cast aside the relevance of story—though finance brokers, corporate attorneys, and tech billionaires might tell a different… er… story. As important as ‘narrative’ has become both academically and professionally since the work of Paul Ricœur in the mid-20th century, that same century invoked a wave of focus on scientific reason where critical analysis superseded storytelling and narrative was viewed as both trivial and infantile in a way that continues well into the 21st. [4] Thus, despite story’s prevalence in the work of individual lives, society’s trajectory, and the conveyance of history and research, as a matter of societal importance it is swept aside. And like all things associated with children, no kind of story is swept aside more dismissively than the fairy tale.