8 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
The oxen stumbled on the road to Jerusalem. Uzzah put out a hand, and the king who had sung before angels learned what a wagon could not hold.
Solomon multiplied wives, horses, and gold against the king's law. Heaven sent an angel wearing his face, and the real king ate grits.
The army leaked into the hills on the seventh day. Saul put fire on the altar where no king belonged, and Samuel walked in on the smoke.
A king first called his girl daughter, then sister, then mother as love grew. Rabbi Elazar mapped that climb onto God and Israel, and earned a kiss.
The Masters of the Mishnah cried out as if he had hurled rocks. No stone left his hand. The words finished their rows and the Throne shook.
Solomon read the ban on many wives the way a man reads a door he will not lock. The smallest letter of the verse sued him anyway.
The oil smelled of myrrh and cinnamon. Moses already felt the stones on his chest. God named Aaron, his brother.
A lame man laughed at her in the street. Her hair would go grey, he said, before that shepherd of hers ever became a scholar.
