#58 words

[photozoi]

Just don’t show it the same way

Help. It wasn’t me. I love you all still. Opening me up, you’d find it. I vow. Love isn’t foreign, it has to be there. Love isn’t foreign, I held it here somewhere. Offering me up, you’d find it. Here and now. Where? Look inside me, the love is there, it will spill.

[swift-footed-achilles-ams110]

Oh, of course we're back to my heel once again. It's a heel! We can stop speaking of it now. Though, I find it interesting that those in the modern day don't know the true story. I will say, having my mortal body parts burned alive sound far more impressive than just being dunked into the river Styx.

[swift-footed-achilles-ams110]

I truly am the greatest warrior! Good to know this internet is aware of that as well. And that they know of my troops, the Myrmidons! We are the mightiest of them all! They even know my best companion Patroclus! I do miss him so, I wish he were to have joined me in the future as well.

[nic-mccool]

Paean

Underneath the magnolia, all drooping and pale pink, I sit on one side of the bench, you are on the other, and between us sits noble Hygiea feeding her father’s serpent.

I gently lift bruised petals from the ground, carefully tear them to bits, softly crush them in my fists, and throw them at a nearby gravestone.