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The Blue Lyre Costas Komborozos

In this retelling of the Orpheus myth, a man returns to the Aegean after losing his beloved in the sea over a decade ago. He returns in order to feel her presence, which he believes arises from the mysterious music of the ocean. He realizes that the music allows his memories of her to resurface and take him deeper into an endless horizon that he believes will allow him to be reunited with her. "The reckoning of the minutes and the hours occurs in the brief moment when he thinks he has finally allowed time to bring him back to her. But he feels her absence seep into him once more, and the sea shines as brilliantly as it did at the beginning of his mind's secret millennium. A thousand summers have made him relive kiss after kiss, ghostly embrace after ghostly embrace. She always flees from his touch, and his eyes cry out for the mere sight of her. The images come all at once: the infinite blue sea, the unending sparkles of sunlight, the clear open sky, and the steady dissolving of her bright streaming hair into the horizon. A pair of eyes look back, and then the image of her is no more. All that remains is the music of the ocean, which brings his memories to the surface in order to let their light shine unseen. He can only glimpse the obscure wall of memories from a distance. A shadow lingers in the corner of his eye. A beautiful shadow."