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Authors: Clea Hantman
Clea Hantman
has written for and about teens since she was one herself. She’s worked on teen marketing campaigns for companies such as Ticketmaster, Wet Seal, Contempo, Skinmarket, and Dawls. She’s written for
Sweetie
and
Phoebe
(retailer Wet Seal’s magazines) and Transworld publications like
Skateboarding
and
Warp
…and she’s been written about in
Seventeen, YM,
and
Wired.
In addition, Clea is a Cancer who collects lunch boxes and likes to boogie.
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Cover illustration © 2002 by Lizzy Bromley
Cover photographs © 2002 by Barry Marcus
Cover design by Marci Senders
Cover © 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
GODDESSES #2: THREE GIRLS AND A GOD
. Copyright © 2002 by 17th Street Productions, an Alloy, Inc. company, and Clea Hantman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Adobe Digital Edition May 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-195415-3
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A booty-kicking witch who was dating Jason, one of Era’s first loves. (Era had several first loves.)
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Medea loved Jason. Jason’s eyes wandered toward Era. The Furies stepped in on behalf of Medea, and all Hades broke loose.
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Polly fell for Tim, but he was really in cahoots with the Furies, and he ended up embarrassing her in front of the whole school. But one night at the Grit, Polly’s musical talents, and a little magical tug o’ war with the Furies, put Tim in his place and won Polly a slew of admirers.
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Don’t forget, in total there are nine lovely Muses. We have six sisters back home in Olympus.
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The three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades and Tartarus.
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Daddy walks tall and carries a big stick that he thrusts into the sky whenever he’s angry. Everyone stops, gets a chill down their spines, and goes back to business as usual.
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They execute all the Fates’ wishes, which means that when they are good, they are very, very good, and when they are bad, they are
evil
. The Keres are just nipping at the Furies’ heels, hoping to one day take over and rule Hades as their own.
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Our pet flying horse.
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One of the youngest and most daring Muses.
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Back home, Hermes told a story so vividly, you’d swear you were seeing it before your very eyes. But that was the closest thing we had to a camera.
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Although once Dionysus has a few glasses of nectar in him, things usually tend to perk up a bit.
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Three goddesses who control everything. Sure, Zeus is like the Big Daddy, but ultimately, the power is in the hands of the Fates.
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Roughly 123 pounds.
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Which by the way is sooo against the rules back home, but you can’t help but try once or twice.
