Shakers

Preface

Natasha Goodwin, loving parent, bar worker at Shakers and an inspired workout mum, dug up a time capsule made by her husband.

"DO NOT OPEN, unless in the death of Justin Goodwin"

But Natasha's husband isn't dead, he is away for work. When she questions him via the phone, Natasha senses that something is off. Justin is not being truthful.

What happens in consequence changes Natasha's previously simple life forever, and the magnitude of this event changes the lives of three families who relationships all become explicitly entwined.

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
- James Joyce -

Unlucky, unlucky Persephone! Hades has taken you to the underworld, not a great idea, especially when your mother is Demeter. Zeus doesn't tell your mother about you. Zeus doesn't tell anybody about you. Naturally, she finds out anyway. Then what to do? Would it be wrong to send out harsh winters, and bitter winds for mankind to suffer? And of course take the children away?

So yeah, that happens, good one, Demeter. Oh Persephone you were such a victim! But then Persephone you eat that fruit, you idiot, even with Herakles to come rescue you, you're now partially bound to the Underworld forever. But for one thing, Zeus didn't say anything for ages, and for another, no one told you not to eat that fruit, but at least your sisters are happy that everything's back to the way it should be even if you aren't!