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Eros

Queer Myths for Lovers

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Eros

By: Zoe Terakes
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A sexy modern take on ancient Greek myths.

She keeps her eyes on me while she lights the end of my cigarette. I stare back at her. Something in the pills and in her eyes is opening up my muscles like hands parting from prayer, like trees breathing.

Eros is a stunning collection of short stories, grounded in truth and coloured with dazzling imagination and alluring, unpredictable mystery. Revealing how queerness, nature and myth have been intertwined for eternity, these are stories of gods and goddesses. Of Zeus, of Eurydice, of Hermaphroditus, of Icarus before he flew into the sun. Stories of queer life, lust, revenge, wrath, passion and sex. Of yearning, love, loss. Some transformations span across a life, and others, an evening. Perspectives will shift. Houses will burn. Lovers will learn their fate.

Zoe Terakes has skilfully blended myth and modernity to illuminate the complex and enduring truth of trans lives, resisting a history of erasure and delivering a sexy, soul-touching book to read to your lover . . . or yourself.

'Goddamn, these stories set my queer heart alight. In finally making queer and trans undertones of ancient Greek myth explicit, Zoe Terakes has forged something both classic and eternal, timely and timeless.' BENJAMIN LAW Anthologies & Short Stories Fantasy Literature & Fiction Short Stories World Literature Mythology Ancient Greece Greek Mythology
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This book is a powerful exploration of desire, identity and emotional vulnerability. Zoe Terakes writes with a raw honesty that makes every moment feel lived-in, capturing the push and pull between longing and self-discovery with striking clarity. The audio version with their own voice is both grounding and enchanting. The prose is intimate and the characters feel deeply human: flawed, searching and real. What lingers most after finishing the book isn’t just the romance, but the way the book interrogates what it means to want, to be seen and to choose connection even when it’s terrifying. Terakes’s reinterpretations are beautiful, powerful and refreshing. Breathing new life into familiar myths while centering queer and trans experiences that history often erased.

I have learned a lot by reading/listening to Eros. I have deeply, deeply enjoyed this book.

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