Man who falls in love with a sphynx and solves her riddles daily, in spite of the threat to his life. The boon he requests every night is to sleep by her side in the warm sand and wake up safe. As he grows old, then forgetful, she reconfigures her riddles to accept any answer.

Idk I just think it would be neat. Nice Ace love story. I just think the parallel of him working hard and studying to be able to solve her riddles in his youth, While she struggles to think up riddles he couldn’t possibly lose in his final years, is romantic.

Sad ending. I think he would die in his sleep beside her and she would eat him in a very Where The Wild Things Are “I’ll eat you up I love you so” Way. Keep his bones, bleached white in the sun. Wear them maybe. The only man who mattered.

I don’t usually hawk my work under my viral tweets because generally, the topic of the tweet is unrelated to what I do. But this is exactly what my books are like. Just devastating concept after devastating concept. (Icarus, Hollis brown (pre-pub) and The weight of the stars)

Anyway, back to sphynx.

There has to be a night, where he finally gets one wrong. Where he’s already made his bed and lay his grey head down, eyes closed. After he answers, her lion ears prick up and she thinks “Ah. This is the beginning of the end.” And thinks hard all night until his answer is right

I also kind of like the idea that other people still come and challenge her riddles and fail and she eats them while he just stands there, petting her shoulder, while they beg for their lives. Monster (literal)/ Monster (figurative) Romance.

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@KaylaAncrum OH MT GOD. Am I a bitch for retelling of Greek myths ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS QUEER????. you sold me.

@KaylaAncrum I like this a lot. I'll be waiting for the moment to get this book