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Troy has fallen. Calliope, the goddess of poetry, hears rhyme after rhyme arise from a clash of worlds: East and West, beauty and barbarity, lust and dust, brevity and longevity, and the spark and the dark. The dying Achilles forms the last rhyme she needs in order to sing an epic song. Mortality and immortality clashed inside him time and again, but now they are no longer at war. Rivalry becomes poetry.
Destiny is the most beautiful song never heard.
It is the rhyme of all unspoken rhymes, the echo of all muted echoes.
It is the voice of all silenced voices. And now a voice can finally sing.
From an early age, Achilles, the child of a sea nymph and a mortal, knows that he has a special purpose. He has a tragic flaw that reminds him of his fate: he must die young in order to live forever. The Trojan war gives his life flow and rhythm. His mortal flaw gives it a rhyme. The Muse makes it a song.
Troy has fallen. The goddess of poetry hears rhyme after rhyme emerge from a clash of East and West, beauty and barbarity, lust and dust, brevity and longevity, and the spark and the dark.
The dying Achilles forms the last rhyme she needs in order to sing an epic poem. Mortality and immortality clashed inside him time and again, but now they are no longer at war.
Rivalry becomes poetry.
The Muse approaches Achilles as he lay dying. She turns Achilles' life into a melody. Achilles feels his mortality rhyming with immortality. His destiny is complete.
The song the Muse sings for Achilles is as beautiful as it is short.
From an early age, Achilles, the child of a sea nymph and a mortal, knows that he has a special purpose. He has a tragic flaw that reminds him of his fate: he must die young in order to live forever. The Trojan war gives his life flow and rhythm. His mortal flaw gives it a rhyme. The Muse makes it a song.
The Muse approaches Achilles as he lay dying. She turns Achilles' life into a melody. Achilles feels his mortality rhyming with immortality. His destiny is complete.
| |  | | Infinity, Know Santorini's Now
It begins with an unfinished love letter and a timeless view of the caldera...
A woman watches as a series of volcanic eruptions allow the island of Santorini to be born. Infinity wonders how something so terrifying can allow a beautiful island to come into existence. She contemplates how the meaning of this event impacts her role in observing a history of lost loves. She observes how various romances in the Aegean ended in tragedy, and how the island has changed their meaning. The birth of Santorini is an enigma that she slowly untangles as she realizes that all these lost loves tell a story.
At the same time, a young woman named “Sophia” receives postcards from Santorini. The date on each postcard spans different eras. Sophia feels as though someone is sending these postcards from across time. As she tries to uncover this puzzle, she realizes that the sender of the postcards knows about her life. The postcards capture a moment frozen in time, the “now” of Santorini that allows the loves that perished in the Aegean to merge into the present moment. Sophia observes how the tale of tragic love stories unfolds along with her future, which becomes intertwined with the history of Santorini.
| |  | | Leonidas: King of Sparta
Fear was the enemy. But from fear came courage. And from courage came freedom.
When the boy rose to face the darkness, he glimpsed phobos, intangible fear, peering back at him. The fear looked at him teasingly, infuriatingly, on the verge of withdrawing itself into its own silent rage. He felt that it was his own disembodied dread making its untimely departure. Deep inside, the boy had already become a man.
A dying Xerxes told the tale of Leonidas to a scribe. He was gripped by fear, which gave him the courage to tell his tale in its entirety. In his last moments, he recalled Leonidas' beginning.
When Ionian cities joined the Persian empire, a revolt was quietly overtaking the conquered cities. The Ionian Revolt allowed tyrants to rebel against the Persian crown, and Darius aimed to quash the rebellion through whatever force necessary. When the revolt failed, Darius became more determined than ever to expand his empire. Greece would be the next to fall under the mighty Persian yoke. But little did the Persians realize that the Spartans were unlike any other warriors, for they would take a stand against the might of the Persian empire.
| |  | | Proteus and the Thousand Ithacas
When Odysseus leaves his kingdom to fight in Troy, Proteus, the god of elusive sea change, watches as Ithaca changes from day to day, from year to year.
Day after day, year after year, Penelope, the loyal wife of king Odysseus, looks out of her window and watches a ship emerge on the horizon. With each passing day, a different ship appears. With each passing day, he is far and yet so near. The god of elusive sea change knows that Odysseus must change along with Ithaca, which goes on a journey of its own. The only way that he can recognize the Ithaca he knows and loves is by seeing how much he has changed. | |  | | Serenity War (The Wall of Water)
There was silent war, but then boisterous peace. Tridents had clashed in a sea of abysmal sound. But then peace had come at a wordless and even soundless cost.
The kingdoms had waged a series of trident wars, but it was only when they had achieved peace that the ocean became noise. The trident wars had brought the voiceless toil and labor of armies. But the absence of war was unbearably loud. Something had been erected, but something had also made it through. Everything became clear. Triton understood now. The silence in his mind was silence no longer. His becalmed mind was loud and then louder still. But was it too late?
Two aquatic kingdoms stand on the threshold of a trident war. Only two lovers learn to communicate clearly through the wall and prevent a full-scale trident war: Triton, son of Poseidon, and Myriella, daughter of Oceanus.
A liquid wall wavers between two underwater kingdoms. All sounds become distorted through its rippling surface, forming a phonetic rift inside the deep. War is silence and peace is noise.
The wall also slows down sound, causing words spoken in the past to be heard in the present. Meaning arrives belatedly, causing a lapse in comprehension. When words are spoken through the wall, their meaning changes entirely. What is heard diverges from what is spoken.
Only two aquatic beings learn to communicate clearly through the wall: Triton, son of Poseidon, and Myriella, daughter of Oc | |  | | Shadows of Troy
In this reimagining of the Trojan war, the destiny of Achilles and Helen of Troy unfolds in ways that defy the works of the gods.
Achilles survives the Trojan war and grows to be an old man. He sees Helen appear from time to time, and she appears to him as ageless. The sight of Helen forces him to come to terms with his legacy. | |  | | The Shadow of Achilles
After the Trojan war, one of Achilles' Myrmidons is washed upon strange shores. Memories of the Trojan war flood his mind as he aims to regain some semblance of purpose. He is the last Myrmidon and feels Achilles' golden dream of eternal glory dimming in the shade of obscurity. He fears that Aeneas, the Trojan fugitive, might have found refuge in this land. He must step out of the shadow of Achilles in order to find his own place in history.
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Soldier's Gap
by David Schwinghammer
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 Soldier's Gap is a non-traditional mystery with literary elements. The high school principal is brutally murdered, but Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins's search for meaning and love is a much more significant theme.
"Murder isn't usually this fun |
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Dreamin' Dreams
by Brendan O'Brien
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 Dreamin’ Dreams is more than a collection of stories; it is a celebration of Irish life, adventure, and the unforgettable characters who make growing up in Ireland a journey worth remembering. |
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