An email from my reader ^_^

Wow! I found myself in utter bliss when I received my first response from one of my readers. I liked the way he approached the story of Hades & Persephone. This witty writer gave it a new look and so, I decided to post his work on my blog.

I am sorry as I did not take your permission before posting the below content however, I would really appreciate if you will be a sport and forgive me for this. You are an awesome writer!

His email goes like this:

Hello Shona,

I went through your story about the famous love story of Greek mythology. No offenses but I have written a simple yet correct to the point version of my Hades & Persephone’s love story.

Let’s take things one by one:-

Hades was the most unfortunate of the three brothers, sons of Saturn. Zeus took the Heaven and Olympus kingdom. Neptune took the Sea and Water. And poor Hades took the dark Death Kingdom (under the Earth) with a wild dog with 3 heads and a snake for a tale; all those were the result of a lottery, for sharing their inheritance!

As always in life (even for Gods) women were really interested in the job of the man and this made Zeus unforgettable! (The wealthy Greek tycoon that all girls wanted badly, even though he was married!!!)
Neptune was a really cool and wild guy, without a steady companion. (A guy for having fun on the beach) Sometimes was really good and sometimes was really bad!!
Hades was a steady man, with a good and steady job (everyone will die someday!), good-looking, but with a boring lifestyle. No mature woman will ever want to be under the Earth and see no sun for an eternity for having him! All they wanted to live their lives!

He often blamed his brothers for not having a wife…but it is well known that when we talk about inheritance, there is always trouble, even to the best of the families. Zeus and Neptune had been bored to death hearing their brother’s blame and they let him for one whole day to choose a woman on Earth and to take her with him. He did not lose a minute and goes to a field (like today a shopping mall, where all the teenagers kill their time) to find a girl. The myth says that when Hades met Persephone; she was playing with a ball with her girlfriends, away from her mother Demeter- a single mother who was working hard, as the whole Earth cultivator (so never leave a teenager girl away from your surveillance, especially when you are a single hard working mother!).

Hades was a good looking young man – he had something Goth in his style, that charmed Persephone immediately (she was young and innocent and she did not ask a single thing about his work!! typical teenager reaction to love!!). He made a proposal and she accepted without a second thought. (Her mother was overprotective and she wanted the same carrier for her daughter.) Agriculture was not on Persephone’s plans, so she leaves with Hades immediately, not to mention she will not have to work, not even a day in her life with him. (This could be a Las Vegas marriage).

As always after the secret marriage, mother was furious and made every effort to take her daughter back (winter in Greece was the worst action of her). When you are in love you are not afraid of even death, for being with your husband (young Persephone was that case). But sometimes relatives go to happy couples and interfere asking for help (Zeus and Neptune begged Hades to make an arrangement with his furious mother-in-law, because she had brought some serious problems to their businesses!! Neither any fruits in Heaven nor any sea sports and sun in Greece!

Hades was not persuaded at all by them (“When I was all alone, you didn't give a damn…” he said and closed the door of his Gothic happy home to their faces.) But poor husbands in love can stand anything except his young and beautiful wife’s tears (“Oh Hades, I really miss mom…”) and for making them happy they accept their every wish (“OK love, go to your mother's house for some days. I will keep the dog with me. I am already missing you!”)

And as all the young married daughters & unemployed housewives do when they go to their mothers, they totally forget to return home (6 months of vacations in Greece every year!! Poor Hades ate frozen meals and had the dog with 3 heads as a company)

 p.s. Typical marriage for a nice boring guy in love…