My ancient history

(I wrote that story about 20 years ago. Soon I am turning 40 and I thought it's a good time to return to my-ancient-history, so I translated it from the original Greek to share it with you, my only-English-speaking dear future historian and contemporary reader.) 

The lost girl (poem)

Once upon a time there was a little girl who got lost in the maze of Time.

She had hidden there a long time ago because from a young age she learned how harsh reality can become. And now she was afraid to go out.

Are you reading what I am writing, or am I writing what you are reading?

Someone

somewhere, at

some point.. opened a book. And

 as s/he turned, or

              scrolled, in the first

page,    imagined.. and

              created..

'The ultimate Truth' Short story

‘What it would take you to believe that you have found the ultimate Truth?’ His interlocutor asked our protagonist.

That was the stupidest question he ever heard, he thought. Yet, his initial impression, of the obviousness he thought the answer had, faded away when he couldn’t find any words to form it.

‘Well, everyone’, he heard himself say, without being sure of what his next sentence would be, ‘has different standards to that question, influenced by their character, their environment and their experiences. No one can really be objective. I don’t even trust what would convince me as the ultimate Truth. In order to really make a believer out of me, I have to have multiple people’s accounts; people that I will know every little detail about them.’

Cosmogony myth and gods' family dysfunction

The Mother-goddess and the Father-god.. were struck by the arrows of Eros (or Cubit if you prefer,) which pre-existed.

At first, their chemistry surprised even Eros himself.

Their wedding was magical. And it was a source of inspiration to songwriters and storytellers over centuries, echoing the magnificence of their union. Yet, as the "Chinese whispers" or maybe as some kind of distorting mirror, the ‘wedding’ was considered to fit at the end of a story, and gradually moved itself there.

Μύθος Κοσμογονείας

Η θεά Μητέρα.. κι ο Πατέρας θεός.. χτυπήθηκαν από τα βέλη του Έρωτα, που προϋπήρχε.

Αρχικά η χημεία τους εξέπληξε και τον ίδιο τον Έρωτα.

'DIY' Greek Short Film Script (February 4, 2005)

Also available in English

“ΦΤΙΑΞΤΟ ΜΟΝΟΣ ΣΟΥ”

Σενάριο μικρού μήκους της

Λείας Μιχαλοπούλου

(11 Σελίδες/Λεπτά.)

Two Book unfinished attempts and a Poem (1997 & 2004)

Poem:

Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό ήταν ένα κοριτσάκι που είχε χαθεί στον λαβύρινθο του χρόνου.

Είχε κρυφτεί εκεί πριν πολύ καιρό γιατί από μικρή έμαθε πόσο σκληρή μπορεί να γίνει η πραγματικότητα.