If you are interested in winning your very own copy of Hulk Hercules: Professional Wrestler, Sonya Sipes, Cats Curious Publisher, is hosting a contest right here, right now.
Your labor? Write a haiku about one of the 12 labors of Hercules, the subject of the novel. In case you need a haiku refresher, the structure is 5-7-5 in terms of syllables.
I’ll be very interested to see how words like Stygian and Cerebus work into haikus.
Catherine
First of twelve labours:
Slaying the Nemean Lion;
Bringing back its pelt.
Labour Number Two:
To kill Lake Lerna’s Hydra –
Nine-headed serpent.
Hind of Artemis;
Golden beast that lived in Greece;
Was it a reindeer?
Chiron gives advice;
Raging Erymanthian Boar…
“Catch it in thick snow!”
Augean stables;
Thirty years of dung to clean…
Rivers wash out filth.
Slay Stymphalian Birds;
Beaks of bronze and metal barbs…
Scared them off with noise.
On to seventh task:
Caught Cretan Bull with bare hands;
Hera refused it.
Man-eating horses,
Also known as Mares of Thrace…
He taped their mouths shut.
Admeta wants it;
Girdle of Amazon Queen.
Hera interfered!
The Monster Geryon
Had herds that Heracles stole…
After killing him.
Stealing the apples
From Orchard of Hesperides
Eleventh labour.
Capture Cerberus…
The three-headed dog of Hades;
Thus, ends our story!
Hello! This came up when I was looking for something else. Stygian not included, but Cerebus is – so did I win, and I missed the e-mail because I lost access to my old address (long story)?
Tanja:
This contest was a long time ago, in 2010. I no longer have copies of Hulk Hercules, and Cats Curious is out of print. I am sorry.