Three little pigs. Sounds funny, but the idea of the idea of the pigs and the big bad wolf seemed like an interesting storyline to tell.

Jacobs version from Wikipedia.org

The tale of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf was included in Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, first published about1843. The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published in 1890 and crediting Halliwell as his source.[2] The story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to “seek their fortune”. This follows a theme, common to fairy tales, in which protagonists leave the familiar abode of their youth and its protection, venturing into an outside existence which turns out to be fraught with danger.[3]

The first little pig builds a house of straw, but a wolf blows it down and the pig runs away. The second pig builds a house of sticks, but with the same ultimate result. Each exchange between wolf and pig features ringing proverbial phrases, namely “Little pig, little pig, let me in”, “not by the hair on my chinny chin chin”, “then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down.”

The third pig builds a house of hard bricks and lets his brothers in. The wolf cannot huff and puff hard enough to blow the house down. He attempts to trick the three little pigs out of the house, but the pigs outsmart him at every turn. Finally, the wolf resolves to come down the chimney, whereupon the pigs boil a pot of water into which the wolf plunges, at which point the pigs quickly cover the pot and cook the wolf for supper.

The story utilizes the literary Rule of three, expressed in this case as a “contrasting three”, as the third pig’s house turns out to be the only one which is adequate to withstand the wolf.[4]

Retellings of the story sometimes omit the attempts to trick the third pig, or state that the first pig ran to the second pig’s house, then both of them ran to the third brother’s house of bricks. The latter is often an attempt to write out death or violence in the story.

The idea came to me that the three little pigs could be guys that the main character dates.  The first is straw, next sticks, and finally brick.  Not sure if this will apply to their personalities or their jobs or what, but it seemed something interesting  to explore.

The first inspiration I had came from the other night when I was watching CMT and I was thinking about writing and the video for Here Comes Goodbye by Rascal Flatts came on:

I can hear the truck tires coming up the gravel road
And its not like her to drive that slow, nothin’s on the radio
Footsteps on the front porch, I hear my doorbell
She usually comes right in, now I can tell

[Chorus]
Here comes goodbye
Here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I’m gonna cry
Here comes the pain
Here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye

I can hear her say I love you like it was yesterday
And I can see it written on her face that she had never felt this way
One day I thought I’d see her with her daddy by her side
And violins would play here comes the bride

[Chorus]
Here comes goodbye
Here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I’m gonna cry
Here comes the pain
Here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye

Why does it have to go from good to gone?
Before the lights turn on, yeah and youre left alone
All alone, but here comes goodbye

Oh-oooo

[Chorus]
Here comes goodbye
Here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I’m gonna cry
Here comes the pain
Here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye

Oh-oooo