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    Myths
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    Myths
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    Myths

    By Erika Price

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    Hera was a gorgeous megab*tch, but she was fantastic at Scrabble. Aphrodite was just jealous. Salome was a Toddler in a Tiara, Athena was cute in a spunky, Ellen Page kinda way, and Scheherazade was an attention-starved blogger. Persephone and Hades were only on a trial separation. Pandora just opened the box because she was hella bored.

    In this short story collection by Erika Price (author of Corpus Callosum), gods and goddesses from bygone eras are reimagined as contemporary analogues and released on a hapless modern world. The result is a frenetic send-up of modern feminism, psychotherapy, relationship dynamics, and socioeconomic exchange. In MYTHS, new creation stories are laid down, the world is destroyed and created anew, and the more things change, the more petty human nature stays the same.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErika Price
    Release dateOct 19, 2013
    ISBN9781301415229
    Myths
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    Erika Price

    Erika D. Price is a writer and social psychologist living in Chicago, Illinois. Her work has been featured in Whiskey Paper, EFiction, Red Fez, Literary Orphans, and on Liar’s League NYC’s podcast, among others. She’s also written journal articles for academic presses that no sane human being would ever read. She writes regularly at http://www.erikadprice.tumblr.com

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