A science fiction, cosmic horror story written in 2020. Cover photo by Sam Kolder.

The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. The Iliad is paired with something of a sequel, the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer. Along with the Odyssey, the Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the 8th century BC. Recent statistical modelling based on language evolution gives a date of 760-710 BC.

To the world, he was a conqueror, a king, perhaps even something divine - but to Hephaestion, he was nothing less than Alexander. In the footsteps of Achilles and his Patroclus, they were destined to ascend to legend together, for each was unwilling to live without the other. Told from Hephaestion's point of view, "I Am Alexander" chronicles a series of vignettes spanning the lifetime of Alexander the Great, imagining their hidden romance interwoven with historically accurate events. To the query, "What is friendship?" his reply was, "A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle, Diogenes Laërtius 5.1.20