Stories tagged “greek”
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The First Move
Erika moved before anything irreversible could happen, and promptly ducked underneath the desk. Thanking the heavens that Miss Author wasn’t sitting at the desk, Erika took out what oddly looked like an ancient Greek version of a fly swatter; her...
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Μαντάμ Μέγαιρα (Madame Shrew)
—Ξένια! Ξένια! Ξύπνα, κορίτσι μου – δέν έχουμε πολύ χρόνο! Η μέρα δεν είχε ακόμα αρχίσει και ήδη η μάμα έχει στείλει την Ελευθερία να μ
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Madame Shrew (Translation)
“Xenia! Xenia! Wake up, my girl – we don’t have much time!” The day hasn’t even started yet and mom has sent Eleftheria to to get me out of my bed. Even from where I was, I could hear grandma in the kitchen. Chaos first th...
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Epitaph for Jocasta
Who was Jocasta, o Queen of Thebes? So Hast lived she, Image of beauty. The intelligence of the gods, The best of our lives Reasonable, to see Through the false prophet’s lies. O, but how grave for her To have lived in a tragedy Where the soothsayers...
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Olympian
“Hephaestus, you need to stop with this war, Olympus is in ruins and you’ve all gone insane.” Aphrodie begged. It had been a full year since the gods began to go insane and the war began. They went insane mostly due to their immortali...
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Fraction
He’d woken me up and gotten me to come out of the camp cabin by throwing a rock at the window. I almost fell out of bed, it scared me so much. I was always on edge. We’d climbed up the grassy hill to the tallest point; you could see the ent...
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Clash of the Tight Pants
Pussyass, the son of Zass, must battle mystical forces and the wrath of the Greek Pantheon to save his lover from Heinies, king of the underground club scene. Pussyass leads his army of go-go boys on a lust-filled and scantily clad quest to keep the un...
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The Bright Side of Boxes
“Come on, Pan, there’s got to be some way we can spin this,” cooed the nymph, cradling her friend. “How?” Pandora sobbed. “I’ve ruined everything. Everyone hates me! I’m going to get blamed for the terrib...
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Somewhere Olympian Pt. 1
In some corner of Olympus, Zeus, the god of gods, is angry. Well it would not be new, after Zeus has the gift of being angry at everything. After a time, Prometheus, arrives at the palace of the great god. For those who never heard of, is called Promet...
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Somewhere Olympian Pt. 2
“Father Zeus, what I did was give a free spirit to these beings. The free to believe and become able to do what is beyond his control. " “You were one of their biggest mistakes then Athena!” “If you think … But do not...
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Orpheus
He walked on as his strength ebbed from his body. He felt his arms drooping. Scared of dropping what he carried, he fell to his knees. He fought looking over his shoulder as he struggled to get back to his feet. He couldn’t drop her. He mustnR...