Anthony Patrick

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“The Devotion of Aephius” by Anthony Patrick

Submitted to Contest #170

The following is a tragic folktale that exists within Pereclos, a Greece-inspired kingdom located in the fantasy world I'm creating, and which is the setting for many other stories I'm writing (warning—includes themes of sex, murder, and suicide):Long, long ago, before the Muses conquered the pantheon, there was a young prince named Aephius, and he was madly in love.  Yet before he was madly in love, he was lonely, (despite his countless efforts) unable to find a woman worthy of his devotion. Renowned for being the most handsome man in ...

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I started writing fantasy stories 4 years ago, when I was in my junior year of High School. I write as a form of therapy for myself, but primarily to entertain people and make them forget about life for a small amount of time.