Slashed and Mashed: Seven Gayly Subverted Stories - E-book - ePub

What really happened when Theseus met the Minotaur? How did demon-slaying Momotaro come to be raised by two daddies? Will Scheherazade's hapless Ma'aruf ever find love and prosperity after his freeloading boyfriend kicks him out on the street? Classic lore gets a bold remodeling with stories from light-hearted and absurd, earnestly romantic, daring and adventurous, to darkly surreal. The collection includes: Theseus and the Minotaur, Károly, Who Kept a Secret, The Peach Boy, The Vain Prince, The Jaguar of the Backward Glance, Ma'aruf the Street Vendor, and A Rabbit Grows in Brooklyn. Award-winning fantasy author Andrew J.
Peters (The City of Seven Gods) takes on classical mythology, Hungarian folklore, Japanese legend, The Arabian Nights, and more, in a collection of gayly subverted stories from around the world.