"Cupid and Psyche" by Apuleius and retold by Tony Kline : Link
Caption: Psyche and the Night Crawler
Notes:
The story starts to rise with a trip to the Oracle. This brings the story to a place where the foreshadowing is very explicit. You know early on that Psyche is not going to have a very nice fate, and still I, at least, found myself rooting for her in her innocence.
If there was to be a moral in this first half of the story, I would pin it on "Actions taken due to jealousy easily backfire." Not only did Psyche's sisters meet a fatal end due to their cruelty, but Venus's request that Cupid have Psyche marry someone despicable caused Cupid to fall in love with Psyche himself. I'm sure the next reading will disclose the fact that Venus will not be very happy to hear this news.
I would want this story to continue with their son, a demi-god and hopefully not a fire-breathing town destroyer. He would be an interesting addition to Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. He could have wings like his dad and a touch that would melt any heart. It sounds a little sappy, I think, for me to write well. However, I'm sure Riordan could figure it out.
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