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Issue: Lore Olympus #3
Publication Date: January 2022
 
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Publisher: FlagRandom House
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Indicia Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale Date: 10/12/2022
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Pages: 384
ISBN: 0593356098
UPC/EAN: 978059335609852100
Price: $28.00 CAD
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Content Items: 66 (28 stories, 1 cover)
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Color: color
Dimensions: 7 in. x 9 in.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: softcover; glossy cover; cardstock cover
Publishing Format: collected edition with some new material
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Hades; Persephone
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Lore Olympus
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To Jem Yoshioka

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An excellent friendship to share a lifetime of stories.
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Lore Olympus regularly deals with scenes of physical and mental abuse, sexual trauma, and toxic relationships.
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Sigh
Apollo tries to poison Artemis's mind against Persephone.
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Hades; Perspehone
Episode 50: Nark
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Lore Olympus
Persephone; Hermes; Artemis
Persephone, I think we should go to work together.
Artemis and Persephone quarrel about Persephone's relationship with Hades.
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Hades; Persephone
Episode 51: Distance
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Hades; Persephone; Minthe; Hecate
I have no right to be jealous.
Determined to keep a professional distance, Hades declines a baclava that Persephone has baked for him. Minthe flaunts her relationship with Hades, intimidating Persephone.
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Episode 52: Going Down
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Hades; Persephone; Hermes; Thanatos; Hecate
Tap tap
Persephone shares baclava with Hermes and Thanatos. Hecate maneuvers Hades into giving Persephone the orientation tour.
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Episode 53: The Tour (Part 1)
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Persephone; Hades; Hecate; reporter
It wouldn't kill you to put your diplomacy cap on.
As Hades and Persephone gingerly begin their tour together, Persephone is accosted by a reporter demanding to know about her relationship with Hades.
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Episode 54: The Tour (part 2)
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Persephone; Hades; reporter
Grab!
Despite keeping a polite and friendly demeanor, Persephone terrorizes the reporter. She and Hades go to separate changing rooms before encountering the shades of recently-departed mortals.
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Hades; Persephone; Minthe; Hecate; Thanatos; gorgon
I kind of lied about double-booking myself.
Minthe and Thanatos fiercely object to Persephone's joining the corporation, but Hecate sees them off. Persephone befriends a gorgon who is grief-stricken about Hades (supposedly) being in love with Minthe.
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Persephone
Episode 56: A New Point of View
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Hades; Persephone; Thetis; Zeus; Hera
Sigh.
Persephone and Hades discover that when she's with him, she can fly. Thetis is jealous and enraged that Minthe apparently has a permanent public relationship with Hades. Hera ponders the meaning of her visions, and what they have to say about the inexperienced Persephone.
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Episode 57: The Beach
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Hades; Persephone; Zeus; Hera; shades of mortals
This is going to come in handy!
Hades shows Persephone the arrival of the shades of dead mortals. The shades acknowledge the shocked Persephone as a fertility goddess. Zeus defends both Hades and Apollo to Hera, insisting that neither one's reputation should be sacrificed for the safe of a minor goddess. Hera responds violently.
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Episode 58: The Offer
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Hades; Persephone
This is where we retrain the shades to do a different job.
Hades offers to help Persephone whenever she needs help or protction, if she wants him to. She confesses that she does.
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Episode 59: Whiplash
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Hades; Persephone; Minthe
This is really nice of you to offer...
Persephone asks Hades to define acceptable personal boundaries between them, as she is now working for him and has no experience in the ways of Olympus. Minthe panics over the thought of Hades discovering that she sent the unsuspecting Persephone to the deadly Tower 4. Persephone declines to answer Hades' questions on that subject.
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Episode 60: That Nymph Over There
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Minthe; Thanatos; Hades; Persephone
Not so fast.
Minthe tells a scornful Thanatos that she will no longer "hook up" with him at work, since she is now in a publicly-committed relationship with Hades. She makes sure to put Persephone on a bad light before Hades.
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Episode 61: Itty
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Artemis; Persephone; Hestia
Stuck
Artemis apologizes to Persephone. Persephone confesses to having a crush on Hades.
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Episode 62: Doe
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Demeter; Persephone; flower nymphs; Goddesses of Eternal Maidenhood [Hestia; Athena; Artemis]
L-Lady Demeter!
In a flashback, Demeter keeps Persephone on a tight rein, and pressures her into joining the Goddesses of Eternal Maidenhood.
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Episode 63: Hush Hush
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Artemis; Hermes; Demeter; Kore [Persephone]
R-really?
In the continuing flashback, Kore changes her name to Persephone, and Demeter unhappily permits her to live with Artemis and attend college on Olympus.
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Episode 64: Dimples
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Persephone; Eros; Artemis
I'm so sorry, I know I should have been honest about it.
Persephone confesses (to Eros and Artemis) that she has a "crush" on Hades, but is convinced that he has no interest in her.
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Episode 65: Tea
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Eros; Persephone
You said he's already someone else's.
Eros is horrified at Apollo's treatment of Persephone, and identifies it as rape. He confides that Hades actually is, in fact, interested in Persephone, and that Minthe's relationship with Hades is filled wih strife.
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Episode 66: Here
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Hades; Eros; Persephone
I don't know.
Eros tries to help Persephone process and cope with her horrible experience with Apollo. Hades texts Persephone.
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Episode 67: Siblings
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Eros; Persephone; Storge; Agape
Wow!
Eros makes breakfast for Persephone, and introduces his younger brothers and sisters.
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Episode 68: Ma'am
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Persephone; Eros; Aphrodite
Oh. It's you.
Aphrodite returns home to scour Persephone's mind and soul. She angrily orders Persephone to stop being passive, and to stop allowing a mere nymph (Minthe) to take anything away from a god (Persephone). Eros is moved to search for Psyche.
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Episode 69: Ghosted
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Hades; Zeus; Eros; Aphrodite
Hey, boss, there's been a significant influx of souls today.
Eros, in turmoil over Persephone's suffering, and over his own loss of Psyche, takes out his frustrations by killing mortals. Hermes subdues him, and takes him to Zeus. Aphrodite offers Zeus sexual favors in place of punishment for her son. He confesses his relationship with Psyche, and the shipwreck that this relationship has become for both of them.
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Episode 70: Ma-in-Law
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Aphrodite; Psyche; Hades; Minthe
Look at this credit card bill!
Aphrodite finds Psyche and determines to use her for an experiment. Minthe agrees to dinner with Hades, but also agrees to after-work drinks with Thetis.
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Episode 71: Let Down
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6:30 P.M.
Hades prepares a dinner for Minthe, but she never arrives, and never answers his texts. In an old letter from Persephone to Hecate, he learns that he has met Persephone before, but was so drunk that he cannot remember.
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Episode 72: Dear Hecate
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Hades; Hecate; Minthe; Thetis
Ring ring!!!
Hecate explains to Hades that he had once appeared at Demeter's home, so drunk that he does not even remember the event, and that Persephone was there.
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Episode 73: BFF
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Thetis; Minthe
I hate to be a bother, but, it's my friend's 'birthday' today.
Thetis, jealous of Minthe, keeps Minthe drinking until she passes out, meantime steering her away from answering texts by Hades.
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Episode 74: I Think It Suits You
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Hades; Persephone
Phew, flying sure is hard work!
Hades and Persephone have a lengthy heartfelt conversation by telephone.
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Episode 75: Fate
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Hades; Persephone; the Fates [Clotho; Lachesis; Atropos]
Retsina?
Persephone searches for a way to get out of the Goddesses of Eternal Maidenhood. Hades requests access to some of his own drunken memories.
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If it were up to me, I would create an endless number of chapters featuring Hades and Persephone aimlessly wandering the streets of the Underworld together.
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Hades; Persephone
What now?
Hades and Persephone stop for coffee.
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About the Author

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