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Submitted to Contest #95
‘’How are you feeling, June?’’, Minnie asked as she caressed the white gown with her hands. June dared not to break her sister’s kind spirit, for Minnie was far more feverish than her. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the virtuous sister had spent the last weeks being a docile daughter, making all kinds of arrangements so June wouldn’t have to. June, on the other hand, would have preferred to make the arrangements herself, for she hated favors and benevolence, it made her feel like a slave. June much rather preferred being independent and makin...
Nine days. If one is to believe Hesiod, it takes nine days to fall into Tartarus. Hesiod was a famous poet, the story a stubborn one. It seemed as if all mortals believed in its carefully fabricated fantasy. Atropos thought about Hesiod often, for she longed to know how long it would take for a mortal to find their way into Tartarus. She had not found the final answer, the answer that would hold the power to silence the mortals’s cries for answers. If I, who has lived before the first attempts of civilizations, can not know it, how do they f...
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