0593NOTIcarusDaedalus

0593NOTIcarusDaedalus_CurrieJr

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Apollodorus Epit. E.1.12-14

Ron Currie Jr. "Labyrinth." Short story. Found in XO Orpheus: 50 New Myths. Pemguin Books. New York: 2013.

In XO Orpheus: 50 New Myths, the short story is introduced as follows: "Once there was a boy whose father built a labyrinth.

This is a different story from the one you know. This father didn't build the labyrinth to imprison a half-man, half-bovine monster. He didn't build it to appease a king. No one's going to fashion wings out of feathers and wax, and no one will plummet into the ocean to demonstrate the price of hubris.

Image: Currie Jr in a personal photograph.

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