Read Kinard Mythology Anthology Volume III Page 21

  The Sun’s Creation

  By: Will Duncan

  Once upon a time, there lived Pablo and Jessica. Pablo was a tall, muscular man with soft brown hair and eyes like the ocean, and he smelled like the fresh ocean spray. Jessica was small as a mouse, but still beautiful with long strands of blond hair and had dark gray eyes. Pablo thought Jessica was the most captivating. woman in existence. But there was one problem. He was too scared to tell her. One day, Zeus noticed that Pablo was gloomy and disheartened because he couldn’t build enough courage to talk to Jessica. His head drooped and he dragged his feet as he walked over to his bed. After seeing this, Zeus went to Aphrodite and asked a favor of her to help cheer Pablo up. At the same time, Poseidon had overheard their conversation and realized that was Pablo who he was not fond of.  He needed to ruin this for Pablo. Aphrodite was going to try to give Pablo courage to go talk to Jessica.

  “All I need to do know is make Pablo scare Jessica when he goes and talks to her,” Poseidon said aloud to himself. His plan was going to work.

  The next day, Aphrodite went to talk to Pablo as a ghost in the winds. She ventured down from Mount Olympus to go talk to Pablo. When she got to his cottage, she started whispering things to Pablo that would give him courage.

  “Be brave,” Aphrodite whispered from the shadows, “go tell her and don’t let anyone stop you.”

  Pablo heard these whispers and decided to go talk to Jessica the next morning.

  The next day, Pablo was ready. In the late morning, he set off to go talk to Jessica. She was chopping up a nice salad when he arrived there.

  “Hey,” Pablo said.

  “Hello,” Jessica replied, “what are you doing here?”

  “I’ve been needing to tell you something that I want to get off my chest,” Pablo exclaimed.

  “Okay what is it?” Jessica asked curiously.

  “I really like you,” Pablo told her. And that’s when everything went wrong.