Caissa's Daughter
This is my new fantasy short story about Syzygy, Caissa's daughter. First, who is Caissa? She is the goddess of chess. If a player wins a chess tournament, he might say that Caissa smiled on him today. If he lost, he might say that Caissa didn't find favor with him today.
For Caissa to have a daughter, that daughter must have a father. Enter Hermes--the god of checkers.
In the story Caissa and Hermes have a chess and checkers match. It turns out that each wins in their own domain by the same amount over the other, and so the match is declared a draw. During the match, Caissa and Hermes fall in love and marry.
In short order, they have a daughter named Syzygy. She was named Syzygy by Zeus. So, if you have a problem with her name, take that up with Zeus (and good luck!!).
Syzygy winds up going into a cave to develop Fighting Chess, Fighting Checkers, and Hybrid. She shows her three games to her parents. Caissa and Hermes begin to promote Syzygy's games. Syzygy goes back to the cave to develop Go-12, Tines and Barbs, and Pythagorean Tic Tac Toe.
She gets Zeus to hold a big tournament featuring her six board games on Mount Olympus. The tournament was going well until she faced Poseidon. Poseidon winds up trying to kill her, but discovers he can't. He recruits Atlas and Hercules to help him kill Syzygy. This fails also. Zeus steps in to kill Syzygy with his lightning bolts, which also fails. But, Syzygy does not want to become Queen of the Gods. She just wants to have fun playing and promoting her board games.
A powerful intruder comes into our universe who has the power to kill Syzygy, but he gets outwitted by Syzygy and dies in the battle to the death with her. Then, she falls in love with the creator of our universe. But, the murder of the intruder forces her to leave our universe to go the creator's realm for trial. What happens there is where this snapshot of the story ends. You can get Caissa's Daughter at Amazon now in two formats: a paperback book, and an Amazon Kindle book.
You can check out my other books as well as this one from my Amazon.com author page www.amazon.com/author/tonyberard
Some of these games as well as my new deck of cards are available in a physical form on the game crafter website at www.thegamecrafter.com.
Modern Colors Bridge: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/modern-colors-bridge1
Fighting Checkers: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/fighting-checkers
Just the Colors RSP Deck of Cards: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/colors-rsp-deck-of-cards
Go-12: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/go-12
Thanks, and enjoy the games!!
