Voices Unheard

My beloved is beautiful, graceful and pleases me. He shelters me from the night, he holds me close in strong arms, enfolds me in his calm, but remains himself.

I journeyed to destroy a monster, found a sleeping woman smiling in her dreams, and saw the birth of a winged horse. That is all.

Had I been the one who saw him first, I would have killed him instantly.

If the people of ancient myths could describe their innermost feelings, perhaps we would view them - and ourselves - in a very different way. These sixteen tales explore the eternal human involvement in joy, love and life but also in revenge, loss and death.