The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from lovesick gods. But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

All right cupcakes listen up!

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

The Cyclopes growled, "I don't see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you're... NO... LADY... CYCLOPES!