Michael Orcinus

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[Phone call to Zeus]

Hello? I uh - am I interrupting anything? I kind of uh, need to... you know... the thing with the thing is that... uhm... could you post bail for me?

[Breaking the silence to announce more silence. Well, to be fair, he had been busy. But now that the house was finally complete, he could busy himself with... not being busy.]


Moving to my house over the next couple of weeks. If you've left crap here I suggest you come get it. Otherwise it's going to the landfill.

[A cheque for ten thousand dollars is sent to Zeus. And it also happens to be in the name of 'Zeus'.]

There are a lot of Japanese people living in Hawaii.

I never thought about it. All the devastation. I was selfish.

But it's no good now anyway, to look back on everything and spend too much time thinking about it. Everyone's dead.

WHAT THE FUCK? NO!

[Zeus]
NO!

[The day had been great, what with visiting his granddaughter and Triton's Asian... girlfriend? Wife? Ten-year-stand? Well, whatever she was, she was looking good and Triton was smiling the most he'd ever smiled in many years, and nothing could go wrong.

But Poseidon hesitates when he sees the envelope in the mail. It's Cronus' handwriting and he doesn't know if he wants to see what's inside.

He probably should give Cronus a call. Let him know. It's what any normal son with a functional relationship with his dad would do.

He doesn't get the chance. He opens the card, and the world goes black.]

[Phone call to Hades]
Poseidon is screaming into the phone even while the dial tone is still going; some of it is in English but the rest of it is in their native tongue because, well, it was difficult to go batshit in a second language.


HELLO HADES ARE YOU THERE ARE YOU OKAY ARE YOU DEAD OH MY GODS WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED DID YOU HAVE KINKY SEX WITH PERSEPHONE AND IT WENT ALL WRONG DID YOU USE PROTECTION HOW COULD YOU-

I need money.

[Zeus]
I need money.

[Voicemail left for Zeus]
I need money.

I asked for POP CORN not COP PORN. I DON'T EVEN HAVE AN ACCENT AND I'M HUNGRY AND WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS THING?

[Locked from Zeus and his damned associates]
He's trying to ruin my zen. I just know it.

Stapled my hand to my new house's doorframe and broke the flashing lights box tevelision in my old one. Or whatever. It refuses to turn on no matter how much I talk to it.

Talk to me next year when my sanity checks in again.

Keys to Triton's boat are left on the kitchen counter. A bag is packed and left by the door, fake passport and ticket with fake name sitting on top of the bag. Poseidon isn't at home, and in a few hours' time he won't be on the island anymore.

She's been gone for a couple of days. No note, no creepy present or anything... I don't know if that's normal, or if I should feel responsible for

She'll be back... right?


[Just for good measure, the following poster is put up in various places in Maui, Hawaii]

I'm going to go out and drift in the ocean for the next two hundred years until sanity decides to come back and slap everyone in the face with a slimy, wet, dead, rotten fish.

Until then, go away. ESPECIALLY YOU. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. WE'RE NOT ON TALKING TERMS ANYMORE, YOU HEAR read? whatever! UNDERSTAND ME?

Goodbye.

Tsunami? What tsunami? People cleared out of their houses and moved to higher ground but nothing happened. Whoever said the gods are crazy needs to start looking at all the lies people are trying to sell to everyone.

I'm going for a swim. Someone let me know when the neighbour's done evacuating and comes home. I want my air mattress back.

( 1sentence challenge; 12 from Gamma set )

( 1sentence challenge; 10 from Gamma set )

Home. Doesn't really feel like home.

[Zeus]
I heard what happened. Are you okay?

[Greeks]
Dad is right.

Justice and righteousness shall reign.


[Christmas deliveries]
Amphitrite: Pearl necklace
Inside the card: "Much to say, nothing to say. Sorry. Take care."

Triton: Galileo thermometer
Inside the card: "You can only hear the waves when you are quiet and still."

Triteia: Ship in a bottle
Inside the card: "Live free, and smile - especially when it's difficult."