Eye (149) (Essential Prose Series)

Myth, folklore, and magic intertwine in a collection of literary short stories exploring the human condition.

Marianne Micros' Eye delves into ancient and modern Greece, contemporary Europe, and North America, where characters grapple with evil-eye curses, women healers, and ghosts. These tales explore the struggle to retain power in a world of changing beliefs, featuring nymphs, soldiers, and villagers navigating transformations and uncovering ancient secrets.

Discover stories where myth and folk beliefs persist, where the paving of a village cannot destroy the power of superstition, and where an unfinished musical composition magically completes itself. Eye is for readers who enjoy literary short stories, Greek mythology, and women's fiction, offering a haunting exploration of identity, loss, and the enduring power of the past.

Marianne Micros, in her story collection Eye, explores the mythology, folklore, Greek customs, and old-world cultures that have fascinated her all her life. Her previous publications include two poetry collections, Upstairs Over the Ice Cream (Ergo) and Seventeen Trees (Guernica); and poems and short fiction in anthologies and journals. She has also published scholarly articles on Renaissance and contemporary subjects and a bibliographical monograph on Al Purdy. Marianne’s suite of poems Demeter’s Daughters was shortlisted for the Gwendolyn MacEwen poetry competition in 2015 and published in Exile: The Literary Quarterly. Having retired as an English professor at the University of Guelph, Marianne is currently compiling new poems into a book and working on a second collection of stories.