Short stories
Even long before words were written, we shared stories. The kind told at the fireplace, flickering flames dashing light across expectant eyes - minds gathering in some suspended space between physical reality and something unseen. Each storyteller along this timeline has morphed these tales, adapting them to both their personal interest and audience, sometimes beyond recognition. But, don't be fooled - they linger beneath it all. Haunting us.
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Below is a selection of four of my short stories: Son, The Ninth Year, Girlhood, and What if? Each is based upon a different Greek Myth, and attempts to rekindle those fireside stories beloved by so many generations of our forbearers.
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My most recent project is a collection of 13 sizable short stories. Shades of Olympia: 13 Gothic Encounters With The Gods.
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Son
The tragic story of Icarus, from the perspective of his father, the famed and beloved inventor Daedalus.
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Often described as a warning to the dangers of unadulterated ambition, or the defiance of a parent, I explore this tragedy through familial eyes.
The Ninth Year
Under cool gaze of the silver moon, follow the scent to the mystery cults of Arcadia in this short story of Lycaon.
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Werewolves. Sacrifice. Trickery. In this tale, Ancient Greece meets the Gothic.
Girlhood
Digging into the mind of the teenage girl in my past, and who I still carry with me everywhere, this short piece is a retelling of the myth of Atalanta.
Newfound womanhood comes with more than a changing body and mind, it comes with external pressure. Expectations you might not want, at all.
What if?
A poem to Pygmalion, signed, Galatea.
The sculptor who believed he could never love a woman, senseless and silly as they are, until he carved the perfect one for himself and had her brought to life.
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This legend very much lends itself to opening a conversation around beauty standards, the male gaze, and, existing for ourselves and not others.