Mythretelling Stories

Adrasteia 'Teia' Cloto arrives in Naples believing all she needs is a vacation. And to finish her master's thesis on an expedited schedule. What Teia doesn't need is for four matchmaking retirees to arrange a blind date before she's even unpacked. Then, she meets Alden Colle. Worldly, charming, and mildly infuriating, Alden is a serious writer with a slight obsession with Greek mythology. One date turns into two, then three... They sail the Neapolitan coastline, wander ancient ruins, and fall into a connection Teia has no sensible way to explain. Around Alden, Naples feels oddly familiar. Hidden frescoes come alive. Mirrors show glimpses of another reality. And when he speaks of Theseus, Alden's sadness feels a little too personal. On their final night, Alden makes her a promise: Naxos. Two years. Five years later, Teia has a successful career, a dependable fiancé, and no intention of dwelling on Alden Colle again, especially when her ancient dating history suggests men like him rarely keep their promises. But when Teia returns to Italy, the past begins tugging at threads she thought she had severed, and Alden is waiting at the other end. Now Teia must decide whether to protect the sensible life she has built or risk everything for a love story Fate has been retelling for thousands of years. *** Water and Sand is a contemporary love story that reimagines the myth of Theseus and Ariadne, where love is a labyrinth and friendship feels like the safest way out. #Wattys2026

He was born of the sun, abandoned by a river, and raised by a lie he didn't choose. Karna gave everything to a friendship the world called treason - his name, his dignity, his place among kings who should have called him brother. When the truth of his birth finally arrives, it comes too late to save him, and too late to undo what loyalty has already cost. Shaap Yudh is a two-part mythological tragedy reimagining the Mahabharata's most heartbreaking figures - beginning with Karna, the son the world never let him be, and continuing with Ashwatthama, the son grief turned into a curse. This is not the Mahabharata you were taught. This is the one no one tells from the inside. ⚔️🔥 A story of loyalty, identity, and the price of choosing the wrong side for the right reasons.

Born of Zeus and the primordial void of Chaos, Aphrodite was never meant to be soft. Yet Olympus demanded she smile, obey, and love quietly-or be exiled. Branded as prophecy, rejected as daughter, and betrayed by those she trusted most, Aphrodite rises from the ashes of her own myth. But this is not the story they told you. This is the tale of the goddess they tried to bury-the one who no longer bows. With wings forged in ruin and a heart that bleeds both mercy and fire, Aphrodite begins her reign not from a throne, but from the hearts of those who dared to love loudly. A myth rewritten. A legacy reborn. And a goddess unmade... only to remake herself.

This is an EPIC: The Musical fanfiction! Here is the blurb: The king of Ithaca has finally returned home after his twenty-year long journey, ready to rebuild his life with the family he nearly lost. But home is not the end of the story - it's the beginning of a new kind of challenge. As Odysseus struggles to relearn peace, reconnect with Penelope, figure out how to be a father to a son who grew up without him, and battle against his own inner turmoil and trauma from his journey, the halls of Ithaca become their own unpredictable battlefield. "Ithacantics" follows the chaos, comedy, and heartache of a hero trying to navigate domestic life, divine interference, overcoming trauma, and the strange art of being human after becoming a legend, while also diving into backstories of well known and loved characters and the life of pre-Odyssey Odysseus. So, come along, old friend. I'm sure you know how this story goes - just not this part. (PS: THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR 400 VIEWS! I'm so glad people enjoy this as I was hesitant to post it here at first! Thank you all!)

I was never meant to touch the altar. Never meant to carry a mark the gods themselves fear. At twenty-six, my life should have been ordinary. Instead, I became the key to a prison built for a god and the target of powers that were never supposed to notice me. Bound by a curse disguised as prophecy, I am forced into an uneasy alliance with the very being they tried to erase. He is ancient, dangerous, and hiding more than he tells me. I don't trust him. But the gods are watching now. And they are running out of patience. In a world where myths bleed and love is the deadliest magic of all, I must decide what I am willing to become before fate decides for me.

Persephone is determined to escape the yoke of her mother after centuries of sheltered existence following Demeter's commands. Thus she finds herself at the edge of a precipice, and is shocked to find that despite the hatred harbouring in her chest all she wants to do is fall into the abyss. A retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone. This work differs from the classical literature involving Persephone and should not be used in reference to the ancient versions of this myth.

❝sing, o muse, of those who ruled on high, of women scorned and loved, and of golden crowns, and blood, and love, and war... sing, o muse, of those immortalized, golden-wreathed and ever-lauded, silver-souled and many-storied... sing, o muse, of those myths and legends, adorned, unforgotten and newly woven...❞ ⤷ a collection of myth retellings

A complete retelling of ''The Song of Achilles'' but from Achilles's POV (Official Song of Achilles summary) Greece in the age of heroes. Awkard young prince Patroclus has been exiled to the court of king Peleus. Despite their differences, Peleus's golden boy Achilles befriends the shamed prince. As they grow int young men, their bond blossoms into something deeper- despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother, the sea goddess Thetis. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfil his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him.

When geographer Tom arrives at Mount Ledang to study strange seismic activity, he doesn't expect to find a woman waiting in the mist. Haunted by visions and drawn into the legend of a cursed princess, Tom uncovers a love story lost to time. As the boundary between myth and reality fades, he must choose between the world he knows and the timeless soul calling him to stay. novel music : https://youtu.be/UJKxNde3WpA?si=1X8p_omeF-bhZk5N

Long before legends were written in ink, a king defied a god. When Minos refused to sacrifice the sacred white bull sent by Poseidon, the punishment did not fall upon him alone. A child was born of divine wrath and mortal shame, hidden away in a labyrinth of stone and shadow. The world would come to know him only as a monster - the Minotaur - slain by a hero whose story was carved into scrolls and sung across Greece. Centuries later, in the quiet village of Dion, Aglaia grows up believing that tale. She is the daughter of a once-prosperous merchant, educated and thoughtful, more at home among myths than among men. But when her father's fortune collapses and a powerful General binds him to a cruel contract, desperation drives him to seek salvation in the ruins of Crete - and into a labyrinth that should no longer hold anything living. When he does not return, Aglaia follows. What she finds beneath the stone corridors is not the mindless beast of legend, but a creature bound by laws older than memory - a guardian of a prison he did not choose, and a name no one remembers. Offered her father's freedom in exchange for her own life, Aglaia steps willingly into a palace built above the maze and into a slow, unsettling closeness with the monster the world insists is dead. But love cannot be demanded. It cannot be traded. And it cannot be born from fear. As pride from the mortal world trespasses once more into sacred ground, the labyrinth itself begins to change. Myths unravel. Magic falters. And Aglaia must decide whether the story she was taught is truth - or whether the real monster was never the one hidden in the dark. Aglaia & The Minotaur is a slow-burn retelling of Beauty and the Beast set against the brutal elegance of Ancient Greece - where gods punish pride, legends lie, and sometimes the only way to escape a labyrinth is to walk into it by choice.

Apollo never expected to love a mortal. Hyacinthus teaches the god of the sun how to laugh without foresight, how to live without eternity. Together they share golden days of music, competition, and quiet devotion-until a single moment shatters everything. This is a tragic love story of a god who could not save the one he loved, and a boy whose life became a flower the world would never forget.

After twenty years lost to war, gods, and monsters, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca-only to find the woman he left behind has become a queen forged in fire and silence. But Penelope isn't just waiting. She's burning. And when the king and queen reunite, their love reignites across the island-in every room, every shadow, and every whispered breath. Myth meets passion in this steamy reimagining of Odysseus and Penelope's reunion, inspired by Epic: The Musical. Spice level? The gods are blushing.

In a sweltering London summer, six men each carrying a hidden past and shattered dreams converge on a rundown hostel when a tech giant's viral contest promises one winner a phone, a job interview, and temporary housing. Paris, the campaign coordinator, arrives hoping to "change the narrative" by sharing these men's stories with the world. But as secrets emerge grief, addiction, mental health struggles, and desperate hopes for a fresh start both contestants and organizer begin to question who truly "deserves" a second chance. Blending modern social commentary with the urgency of classical myth, The Judgment of Paris: A Modern Epicexplores how dignity can be stripped away or reclaimed in an instant. When the staged competition unravels, raw truths threaten to expose corporate hypocrisy and force each man and Paris to choose between performing for the cameras or seizing their own voice. A powerful drama about identity, shame, and solidarity, this play asks: What does it take to be seen as more than a statistic? And who has the right to decide someone's worth? Perfect for audiences drawn to honest, character-driven stories that challenge us to look beyond headlines and recognise the human faces behind them. The Judgment of Paris: A Modern Epic reimagines the classical myth as a contemporary struggle among six homeless men vying for a single GA Phone which promises not only a device but a job opportunity and temporary housing. Set in a rundown London hostel, the play unfolds over five acts and introduces an unexpected love affair between Paris, the contest coordinator, and Leo, a Greek ex-inmate among the contestants:

"I Burned the Future to Warm My Hands" The Mourning of Medea, in Her Own Words

They say the King of the Dead stole the spring. They're wrong. I walked into the dark on my own two feet. For a hundred years my mother kept me in a garden that couldn't die - safe, beloved, and buried alive. Then the earth opened, and he was standing in it: still, and vast, and the first creature in all my life to look at me like I was real. He didn't ask me to stay small. So let the poets carve their lie into the temple walls. Let them call it a kidnapping. I know what it was. It was the first time I was ever allowed to fall. She went down as Kore, the maiden. She is going to come back up as something the world should fear.

Vengeance lit her path. Hope will test her heart. After Kelmirla's death, Astrith Lokisdottir becomes the storm Asgard fears to name. Her sword sings for retribution, her grief forges legends, and the blood oath she swore binds her to shadows deeper than Hel itself. Yet the gods do not let pain linger without purpose. When a Valkyrie's challenge pulls her from the edge, Astrith begins a journey that will span centuries-one guided by a single, pulsing fragment of glass: Kelmirla's half-crown, glowing faintly with each new echo of her soul. From the silver forests of Alfheim to the burning forges of Midgard, Astrith hunts those echoes across time-warrior, wanderer, witness. Beside her stands Athry, the loyal shield-sister who keeps her grounded, and Rokai, the son she never meant to raise yet cannot live without. Together they weather battles, false reincarnations, mortal lifetimes, and divine decrees that would see Astrith exiled from her home and her own heart. But as the centuries unfold and the crown's light begins to fade, Astrith learns the truth buried beneath vengeance: that some souls are not meant to be found-they are meant to be freed. Asgardia's Princesse - Part II continues the epic saga of Astrith Lokisdottir- a story of grief and rebirth, of gods and mortals, and of a woman who must learn that even the strongest flame cannot chase the dawn forever.

A reimagining of the famous Greek myth: The abduction of Persephone. But with a creative and romantic twist. ⚠️This story is a creative interpretation, creative liberties will be taken. Do not take these creative liberties literally. They are and were not meant to be accurate to Greek mythology.⚠️

The gods are in revolt. When Eros' arrows shot Apollo and a nymph-one of love and the other of resistance-he wasn't expecting the god of light and the sun to retaliate and rally gods and mortals against him. A plan was hatched, arrows were mixed up, and now Eros is in love with Psyche-and so are Apollo and his twin and goddess of the hunt, Artemis. So when Zeus strips Eros of his powers and matchmaking privileges, he has to prove himself worthy of Psyche in the most humanlike way as possible: to beat the gods in a game of love and chance.