Three Variations on Sleeping Beauty

I. A young man sets out every morning to destroy the roses that threaten to snag the fleeces of his father's sheep.

II. A prince makes his way through the rose bushes to an ancient castle only to find he's not the first prince to arrive.

III. A princess slumbers in the shelter of monstrous briars fed for thousands of years on the blood of the princes who died on their thorns.