Fiction
Words by
The Cost
Ashlee Willis
About the story
When writing a retelling, I love to stay close to the classic version, but add a twist in terms of angle. For Pandora’s Box, instead of viewing the story from afar, I focused on something closer – the relationship between Pandora and her husband – and paralleled it to the greater theme of the story. I was inspired mainly from just reading the original version of the story and then asking myself some questions, like, “Why did Pandora’s husband help withhold Zeus’ gift from her?” “How would Pandora have felt about her husband, marrying him without the likelihood of ever having seen him before?” Questions like that usually start a whole slew of storylines… so I chose one and followed it!