Andrew Gretes, a poet and a novelist, published his first short story, My Papou, in 2007 in Lunarosity: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction by Contemporary Authors. He has since published two poems, Letter to My Friend, the Embalmer in 2011 and Newtonian Meditation in 2011, and one short story , Panning to the Right in 2011, in The Monarch Review, Subliminal Interiors, and Fiction Fix respectively. At The University of Maryland, he was awarded two creative writing honors: The Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize and The Henrietta Spiegel Creative Writing Award. He currently resides in Washington D.C. where he teaches college composition and literature at The Art Institute of Washington.
Editing Aesop by Andrew Gretes
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Stubb Marakas—one of those 20 year-olds who indefinitely occupies his parents’ attic—awakes one morning with the insatiable urge to doodle over Aesop fables. Aided by his best friend, Mark Connor (a swashbuckling Korean adoptee), the two set out to find the meaning behind this sudden craving, embarking on a journey which will force the two friends to come to grips with not only Stubb’s reemerging epilepsy and Mark’s unknown origins but also the failing health of their childhood guru, an old Greek trickster called “Papou.”
