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Part 36 of 3 Sentence Ficathon 2022
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Three Sentence Ficathon 2022
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2023-01-10
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So Casually Cruel

Summary:

Clytemnestra will not let herself think of how this girl, too, was once someone's child; not with her daughter's shade whispering vengeance in her ear.

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For the 2022 3 Sentence Ficathon, off the prompt Greek Mythology, Clytemnestra & Any, is that a threat or a promise?

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“It will not bring you peace,” the Trojan princess says, standing there wide-eyed, placid as a cow to the slaughter; Clytemnestra thinks of Iphigenia in a flash, and wants to die, wants to bring the world down with her in a welter of blood. “Only your children will do that,” the girl murmurs on a bloody dying breath.

Clytemnestra leaves her there on the floor and sets off, Iphigenia’s shade whispering vengeance in her ear, secure in the power of a mother’s devotion, and does not tremble.

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