Avi Burton (he/they) currently moonlights as a writer and daylights as a university student. He enjoys studying theater and mythology. His stories often feature queer characters, revenants, and—on occasion—laser swords. You can find more of their stories in Escape Pod, PodCastle, and Cossmass Infinities, or find the author themself on their website (aviburton.com) or on twitter under @avi_why.
In the wild backwoods of your country, an old belief persisted: Any curse or blessing that befell you would be repaid tenfold in ten years’ time. Small superstitions surrounded it—iron to ward off a reversal of fortune, witch hazel to hasten it—but everyone knew that no matter what you did, a decade later, change was coming for you.
Eurydice has never felt as if she fits in her own myth. It doesn’t belong to her, not really, because the story doesn’t end when she leaves it. Orpheus gets to keep going to the land of the living, and he gets to grieve, and he gets to die a brutal death, and then the story ends. She is left abandoned in the aftermath.
