The Song of Achilles
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his beauty shone like a flame, vital and bright, drawing my eye against my will.
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His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore.
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the marks she has made on the stone. achilles, it reads. And beside it, patroclus. “Go,” she says. “He waits for you.”
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In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun.
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