For this week, the prompt for flash fiction submitted as part of #FairyTaleFlash is “the full moon, stars, or sun.” Selene, the Greek moon goddess, appears in very few myths. However, I was intrigued to discover that a few classical authors believed that she was something of a warrior, and that the scarring on the moon came from her battles with the gods’ enemies.

March 3, 2026

“I am Selene, goddess of the Moon, sister to the Sun and Dawn. At the beginning of time, I went to war. My curved horns flashed against the giants and the monsters who sought to devour the gods. Few remember. I remember. All my wounds remind me. The scars and craters that forever mark the face of the moon.”
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