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Guided by Kate Bernheimer’s editorial vision, each selection blends fairy-tale logic with contemporary narrative craft, turning familiar archetypes into intimate stories of desire, violence, family formation, transformation, and artistic power. The compilation ranges across creation, underworld music, heroism, and monstrous kinship, inviting readers to experience mythology as living literature rather than fixed history.","PENGUIN BOOKS  \nKATE BERNHEIMER is the editor of the World Fantasy Award–winning anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, as well as Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales and Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales. She is also the author of the story collection Horse, Flower, Bird, the novels The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, The Complete Tales of Merry Gold, and The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold, and several children’s books. The founder and editor of the literary journal Fairy Tale Review, she has spoken on fairy tales at the Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University, and the 92nd Street Y. She teaches at the University of Arizona and lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, the writer Brent Hendricks, and their daughter.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nPublished by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) LLC  \n375 Hudson Street  \nNew York, New York 10014  \n[USA / Canada / UK / Ireland / Australia / New Zealand / India / South Africa / China penguin.com](USA / Canada / UK / Ireland / Australia / New Zealand / India / South Africa / China penguin.com)[ ](USA / Canada / UK / Ireland / Australia / New Zealand / India / South Africa / China penguin.com)A Penguin Random House Company First published in Penguin Books 2013  \nCopyright © 2013 by Kate Bernheimer Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission.  \nYou are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. The selections in this book are the copyrighted property of the respective authors.  \nPage 547 constitutes an extension of this copyright page.  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Bernheimer, Kate.  \nxo Orpheus : fifty new myths / Kate Bernheimer.  \npages cm  \nISBN 978-0-14-312242-5 ISBN 978-0-698-13626-7  \n1. Mythology, Greek—Fiction. 2. Greece—History—Fiction. 3. Fantasy fiction.  \nPS3602.E76.X6 2013 813' .608037—dc23 2013020128  \nThese selections are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors’imaginations or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nAbout the Author  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nEpigraph  \nIntroduction by KATE BERNHEIMER  \nIn the modern characterization of Orpheus, culled from diverging stories of antiquity, Orpheus is the best musician of all time—let’s make that the greatest artist. Orpheus could play the lyre so well that animals, rocks, and trees danced to his songs; he was so good at his chosen instrument that he even charmed Hades into letting his bride, who had died after falling into a pit of vipers, return to the world of the living. But Orpheus made one little mistake.  \nANTHROPOGENESIS AND NORSE CREATION MYTH  \nLaura van den Berg  \nAnthropogenesis  \nOr: How to Make a Family  \nThe city was their home. Top floor of a narrow brownstone, no elevator, hallways as dark as caves. They lived near a train yard, where the tracks intersected like arteries. Twice a day, the passing trains shook their tiny apartment like a toy. It was not an extraordinary place, but extraordinary things would happen there.  \nARGOS  \nJoy Williams  \nArgos  \nPerhaps you’ve read of me. I am the hound old Argos. I once belonged to the hero Odysseus some twenty-seven, twenty-eight hundred years ago. Homer granted me a few lines in his epic. He presented me then in a pathetic light.  \nBACCHANTES  \nSabina Murray  \nThe Sisters  \nFrom the start, it was a mistake. 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