“Pandora’s Tackle Box”
Let’s start the new year (arbitrary transition that it is) right.
My story “Pandora’s Tackle Box” has been accepted for the Harnessing Fire anthology. The collection is subtitled A Hephaestus Devotional. Hephaestus was the blacksmith to the Greek Pantheon and, among other things, he is said to have created Pandora to bedevil poor Epimetheus. My story is a modern retelling of that myth, centered in the Missouri Ozarks and dealing with a fishing tournament, thus the tackle box. My character’s name is Old Festus, and he is a blacksmith, as it happens.
The Harnessing Fire anthology will be a print publication, due to come out this spring. I’m eager to see it since it appears to be focused on literary and scholarly writing. I feel classed up a bit.
Long time readers (or those who have delved into the sidebar of this humble blog) will recall that “Pandora’s Tackle Box” has already seen publication. It first appeared in A Golden Place in the Spring 2011 issue. Now a new set of readers will have a look at it.
Simple pleasures.
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January 3, 2013 at 7:33 am
Congrats, Paul. What a great start to your year.
January 3, 2013 at 8:18 am
What great news to start 2013. Congratulations Paul !!!
January 3, 2013 at 9:07 am
That’s a great title!
January 3, 2013 at 6:24 pm
Yay to 2013! Congratulations!
January 11, 2013 at 10:12 am
Huzzah! I think yours is the first acceptance I’ve heard in the new year. Congratulations!
January 26, 2013 at 6:12 pm
I’m late, but wanted to say congrats!