Athena Vettorel

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“If Birds Could Sing” by Athena Vettorel

Submitted to Contest #264

An underworld wedding would seem a grim affair to the living at first glance.  Trellises hung with oozing black roses, their petals shining and drooping stickily onto the red grass carpet below. The benches and chairs, lined like soldiers before the altar, bore twisting, rotten limbs and creaked every time a guest stood or sat: an ear-sore if not for the quartet that led the newly-wedded couple in their first dance across the bleeding plains of Hades. When Orpheus became a spy, she didn’t do it in pursuit of her lifelong dream to play a...

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Lifelong reader and writer, now in school for mechanical engineering in Ottawa, Ontario :)