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    Fear or Be Feared: A Story
    Fear or Be Feared: A Story
    Fear or Be Feared: A Story
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    Fear or Be Feared: A Story

    By John Walters

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    A teenage Greek girl climbs Mount Olympus with some of her friends.  Lost in a lightning storm, she discovers the spirit of an ancient Greek god which possesses her and uses her against her will as an instrument of vengeance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAstaria Books
    Release dateSep 11, 2012
    ISBN9781536552867
    Fear or Be Feared: A Story
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    John Walters

    John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.

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      Fear or Be Feared - John Walters

      Fear or Be Feared

      If you follow the highway south from Thessaloniki try to time it so that you pass the city of Katerini just before sunrise.  The road winds along the base of the foothills that hug the coast.  If the morning is clear, as so many Mediterranean mornings are, the sky becomes deep blue, and an amber glow begins to appear in the east.  When the sun bursts free of the horizon the landscape is suddenly splashed with color:  the azure sea sparkling with light, the green hills, and Olympus itself, a gray monolith now gold-tinged.  It is easy to imagine that the hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and power lines along the road do not exist, that you have been transported somehow to the ancient past when people worshiped gods that lived upon the illuminated mountain.  Greeks are people of tradition; they understand this.  The feeling is passed on from father to son, from mother to daughter, and it is greater than the trappings of other cultures which wash in continually from foreign media like flotsam upon the tide.  

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      Even before it happened, fear was the common denominator by which Persephone measured everything.  But she called it all sorts of other names.

      Dimitra, Zoe, and Thanos piled out of the car.  Persephone and her new boyfriend Spyros lingered in the front seat.

      Phony!  Phony!  Come on, Phony!

      They knew she hated to be called that; she always insisted that people use her full name.  Though she knew it was intended as harmless teasing it annoyed the hell out of her.  She had had a bad scene with her mother and had left the house on edge.  Nevertheless she remained outwardly calm.  Let’s go, she said.

      All right.  Spyros was straighter than most of the boys she went out with:  he got good grades,

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