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Tag: mythology

“Hares to Hounds” by Marco Etheridge

Posted on November 21, 2022

The boy feigns sleep, but he is ready to spring. Two children stalk his bed, dark-light-girl-boy, clad in spring-green and ochre, barefoot both. The boy watches from under hooded eyelids, […]

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“The Firelets – A Fireside Tale” by Christiana Thomas

Posted on August 8, 2022

The wind howled and tore through the treetops, and our horses, Highland and Orion, crowded together to share their heat, but I was warm and sheltered where I sat next […]

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“The Waltz of War and Peace” by Edmund Evanson

Posted on April 2, 2021

Edmund Evanson is an aspiring creative-writer who penned feature stories and film reviews for The Star newspaper, Malaysia’s leading English-language daily, in 2017 and 2018. He earned his Bachelor of […]

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“Penny of Ithaca” by P.L. Watts

Posted on March 15, 2021

She’s even made the bed where another man will rape her. The swine have been slaughtered, the silver’s been laid. Everything’s ready. She scans the room once more. She’s always […]

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“Romulus” by Charles Rafferty

Posted on August 5, 2019

It wasn’t like that. Our mother suckled us for years in the rank, familiar den. She chewed the deer meat until it was a fine paste she could drop into […]

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“The Last Time I Spoke to Penelope” by Matthew Maichen

Posted on September 21, 2015

She led me out of my house in the middle of the night. I went with her because she was moving away the next day, and because I loved her. […]

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