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Monday, September 21, 2015

It's a countdown! Part Two.

Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry
Curse of the Spider Woman is a combination of James Bond meeting Greek Mythology. But with consensual sex.

One of the fun parts of the manuscript was writing the epic poetry that parallels the main story.  My heroine is an aficionado of Homer, and writes her own epics.

Here's some to whet your appetite.



Curse of the Spider Woman
An epic poem
By Rachel Havelock

Rage I sing, and death also,
The tale of curséd women, their deaths
The sacrifice demanded by
Grey-eyed Athena,
Keeper of the ground of Greece.

Arachne, the weaver, the spider,
Doomed by the pricked pride of
The white-armed Goddess, her daughters
To die before the blooming
Of their lives.

All died, all mourned
Until the last flew across the
Wine-dark sea to
Defy the Goddess.

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