The Leap
“‘For too long we have viewed the sun as an enemy,’ Daed began. ‘But it is one we cannot fight. What do you do with such an enemy but make a treaty, become allies instead?’”
Read MoreNarcissus' Self-Love Workshop
“‘The splendid thing is, the workshop does have the desired effect: seeing how Narcissus lives (in death) has made me feel much better about myself.’”
Read MoreTavvauvusi: The Shaman’s Vision
“We open our minds to the islands, let them speak through us in a language lost eons ago. We feel the islands weep as they sink further into the sea, their voices drowning, garbled, soon: silent.”
Read MoreAll That Was Golden
“They were always made for war, not for roses. To touch them is to bleed. To be close is to provoke destiny. Such things, the heroes of legend, are not meant to be soft.”
Read MoreEntombment to the Myth
“I came willingly, as a Queen should. A Queen does not bow nor recede in a game of chess, a Queen uses her moves expertly and with strategy until finally she captures the King.”
Read MoreThe Sweet Loathsome Honey of Love
“She often found him peering closely at her face, as if looking for something he’d lost. She couldn’t understand it. Hadn’t they once completed each other’s words? Complete each other?”
Read MorePoison Cup
“When Hamlet said to him, ‘I am too much i’ the sun,’ I thought to myself my child is burning. Some days he smolders, and some days he blazes, but his grief does not loosen its grip on his neck.”
Read MoreMonsters in a Maze
“Some nights Icarus wondered if Daedalus mourned him. He’d certainly screamed loud enough when he’d fallen into the sea, to anyone else they might have sounded like the screams of a father losing his only son.”
Read MoreParasite/Psyche
“Loving you was always a little like gazing directly into the sun. It seemed like a good idea on instinct, all that scintillate and shine. But you’ll burn right through your sensitive slivers of retina, and soon won’t be able to see at all.”
Read MoreDawn's Man
“The most accurate emoji to describe Eos is fire. She’s brilliant. She’s bright. She’ll warm your heart. But she’ll burn you up within minutes and act like it’s not her fault.”
Read MoreOne for the Road
“‘The dark times will be here when we no longer know why we should be ashamed or even that we should be,’ she said, throwing the glass back to catch the last drops. ‘It will be when we no longer even talk about climate change or war or any of that. Any knowledge we have evaporates.”
Read MoreOrpheus at a Funeral
“Authorities of mortal bureaucracy have limited her to an un-aged face, buried in smoking thorns. Bitter laughter of the Gods as he cursed his longing, necrophilic fate. Unto Hades, he fell, in art & body.”
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