The Goddess: Greek Goddesses Collection, #0

By Lauren Goffigan

Ceto, daughter of Gaia and mother of the infamous Medusa, struggles to protect her immortal children from danger, even as they become a threat to the mortal world...

 

This short story is a prequel to Medusa and includes a preview

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lauren Goffigan
• Release date: Aug 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393617471

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The Goddess

The Goddess

A short story

Lauren Goffigan

Contents

1. The Goddess

2. Medusa Preview

Also by Lauren Goffigan

About the Author

The Goddess

Ceto, daughter of Gaia and mother of the infamous Medusa, struggles to protect her immortal children from danger, even as they become a threat to the mortal world...

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This short story is a prequel to Medusa and includes a preview.

The Goddess

My children are all monsters, yet I love them with a burning ferocity that will never abate. It is both the blessing and the curse of a mother to love one’s children unconditionally, no matter what they become.

I was the daughter of the greatest goddess, Gaia, and she bore no great love for her children. We only existed to please her, to help rule the world she had helped populate with gods.

Like most goddesses, my childhood was a brief one, spent in a great patch of earth at the edge of the world, a splendid lush garden that my mother called home. I came to know all manner of flower, blade of grass, type of tree; inhaling the fragrant scent of hyacinths