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The Labyrinth of Sisyphus

A reimagining of Greek mythology through the lens of absurdism

After millennia of pushing his boulder up a mountain, Sisyphus finds himself recruited for a new eternal task: helping to design and maintain the Labyrinth on Crete. As he works alongside the tormented architect, he begins to see that the Labyrinth is a living system that learns, adapts, and evolves.

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Table of Contents

Part One: The Tower

Chapter 1 - The Arrival → Chapter 2 - The First Stones → Chapter 3 - The Palace Games → Chapter 4 - The Deeper Dark → Chapter 5 - The Weight of Chains → Chapter 6 - The Queens Court → Chapter 7 - The Investigation →

Part Two: The Labyrinth

Chapter 8 - The Testing Ground → Chapter 9 - The Sacrifice → Chapter 10 - The Underworld Rejection → Chapter 11 - The Fall from Heaven → Chapter 12 - The Escape →

Part Three: The Breaking

Chapter 13 - The Fracture → Chapter 14 - The Hungry Dark → Chapter 15 - The Silence → Chapter 16 - The Breaking → Chapter 17 - The Rampage → Chapter 18 - The Compromise →

This is a work in progress. Updates and revisions ongoing.

For more on the philosophical underpinnings of this story, see Humanist Absurdism, Techno-Absurdism, and Neo-Absurdism.