Hades smiled coldly. Hello, Father. You're looking...young.Hades, Kronos growled. I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegiance.I'm afraid not. Hades sighed. My son here convinced me t...
Persephone smiled. Caleb and I play Super MArio Kart every day at one, and when he cancelled on me I knew something was up.I looked at Caleb slowly.
Aiden was staring. So was Caleb, although he looked like he was quite used to all this...woman on display. Hell, even I was staring.She crossed the hall, her long legs parting the chiffon of her skirt...
The older lady harrumphed. I warned you, daughter. This scoundrel Hades is no good. You could've married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but . You had to eat the pomegranate.Mother-And get s...
I am Persephone she said, her voice thin and papery. Welcome, demigods.Nico squashed a pomegranate under his boot. Welcome? After last time, you've got the nerve to welcome me?I shifted uneasily, beca...
She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they beca...
It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.
You know what would help this boy? Demeter mused. Farming.Persephone rolled her eyes. Mother-Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.
Husband, we talked about this, Persephone chided. You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that.Hades rolled his eyes. You liked that Orpheus fellow too. Look how well...
A chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and h...
And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.
Hades smiled coldly. "Hello, Father. You're looking...young.""Hades," Kronos growled. "I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegi
What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.
Charm me into giving you the red M&Ms. They’re my favorite.'I looked Hades in the eyes. 'Give me the red M&Ms.''Still not good enough.''Give me the damn M&Ms,"'I snapped.He snickered. 'That wasn’t ver...
People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world to happen.
His gaze hits mine with the force of a battering ram. He looks… appalled. “I-I won’t do this. I can’t… be with you.
Wait, I need to know who you are," I replied, desperately needing to know him."Someone you can trust," he said ominously.I frowned at that, but he just sighed. He brushed my fallen brown hair softly a...
Enjoying your Christmas in the land of the dead? Fun and different, right?
...even the goddess Persephone is happy, if only for half each year.
Lost in Hell,-Persephone,Take her head upon your knee;Say to her, "My dear, my dear,It is not so dreadful here.
