The Other Legends of Orpheus
by james bezerra
In his later years, Orpheus eschewed the company of any woman, so thick yet somehow so querulously tender was the scar tissue which covered his heart like a thin purple rind. It is said that he invented pederasty. It is also said that it was he who first conceptualized the windowless van. It is said that he composed on his lyre the tune which all ice cream trucks now play and which draws the children from their homes. It is said that many of the enduring mysteries of our time could be solved by prying up the floorboards of his house at the end of Eurydice Street, which is not actually a street, but rather a lane. He has never voted, put out his recycling, or opened his door to trick-or-treaters, with whom his porch is very popular once a year.
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