Ómiros—Chapter Three: The Cave

Chapter One: The Bard Chapter Two: The Mountain The firelight flickered to life under Paris’ skilled hands.  As it grew in strength, it danced shadows upon Paris’ noble features and cast a mountain of crags upon Homer’s own wrinkled face—a pair of contrasts, young past and ancient future, untested youth and wizened age. “There are …

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Ómiros—Chapter One: The Bard

“Rage—Muses, recount the rage of Achilles, Thetis’ son—deadly, ill-fated, that cost countless lives, casting to Hades’ house so many stalwart souls, great fighters’ souls, that made their bodies carrion for the circling birds.” An aged man sat, blind eyes on the bloody flames of a fire, as his audience watched his story come to life …

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