Oct 28, 2015 Friday Fictioneers, Original Short Story
PHOTO PROMPT – © Dale Rogerson
Genre: Greek neo-Myth
Word Count: 100 words of text exactly
Rebirth of the Hydra
©October28th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
Why did I fight Alcaeus? I should’ve recognized him when he arrived. I should have known when he and Iolaus cauterized eight of my heads. I should’ve known that he, named Hera’s Gift, would be my nemesis. And though he severed my one immortal head, and placed it under a rock, I had my revenge, for an arrow he dipped in my blood caused his death.
But they don’t call me Hydra for naught. Aeons passed, water collected around my rock, and a deep basin formed around it. Strength returned.
I was ready to strike again.
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And, as always, a warm “thank you” to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, our gracious Fairy Blog-Mother, for hosting Friday Fictioneers every week. Thanks, also to the delightful Dale Rogerson, for that intriguing photograph!
Tags: 100-word original short story based on a photo prompt, Greek Mythology, Heracles, The Hydra
Aug 6, 2015 Friday Fictioneers
Genre: Myth-fantasy
Word-Count: 100 words (text)
Laurel and the Night-Terrors
© August 6th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
A throttled moon shone from between strangling branches. A vast, bat-shaped creature flew around and around overhead. Underneath her body, creepers snaked out of the ground and wound themselves lovingly around her arms.
Daphne gazed skywards, desperate, ready to shout out the name of her pursuer, her lust-maddened god.
The moon shone down, and a pale warning beamed her way — Do not fear the night.
Daphne took a deep breath, shuddered once, let her body lie limp, and fell asleep.
At daybreak, a beautiful laurel tree stood quietly in the sunlight, where her night-dream-self had lain.
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Thanks, as always to our Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for her inspiration, gracious hosting of Friday Fictioneers and loving support to all of us, and to Madison Woods, for her beautiful photograph-prompt.
Tags: 100-word original short story based on a photo prompt, Fantasy, Greek Mythology
Sep 25, 2014 Original Short Stories
PHOTO PROMPT Copyright – Marie Gail Stratford
Word Count: 100 words
Genre: Greek Mythology
The Twice-Born*
©September 26th, 2014
By Vijaya Sundaram
I stand, ivy-covered thyrsus in hand. I induce madness, ecstasy or death. I, born of Semele of earth, and Zeus of the Lightning Bolt, stand, uncertain for the first time.
You ask, “Will you help me forget myself? For I am bereft.”
If I said, “Yes,” I would invite your death. I will not willingly take you there.
I kneel at your feet, Ariadne of the Labyrinth.
Come, sip on nectar and sup on ambrosia, while I throw your crown into the skies.
I am Dionysos, God of Joyous Oblivion. And this is the first time have I truly loved.
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* My second attempt at a story based on this photo-prompt. Thanks for reading!
Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, our Fairy Blog-Mother, for hosting Friday Fictioneers, and to Marie Gail Stratford for the lovely photograph!
Tags: #Friday Fictioneers, #Love, 100-word short story based on photo prompt, Ariadne, Dionysos, Dionysus, falling in love, Flash Fiction, Greek Mythology, thyrsus