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Clea Hantman has written for and about teens since she was one herself. She’s worked on teen marketing campaigns for companies such as Ticketmaster, Wet Seal, Contempo, Skinmarket, and Dawls. She’s written for Sweetie and Phoebe (retailer Wet Seal’s magazines) and Transworld publications like Skateboarding and Warp…and she’s been written about in Seventeen, YM, and Wired. In addition, Clea is a Cancer who collects lunch boxes and likes to boogie.

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  Cover illustration © 2002 by Lizzy Bromley

  Cover photograph © 2002 by Barry Marcus

  Cover design by Marci Senders

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  Copyright

  GODDESSES #3: MUSES ON THE MOVE. Copyright © 2002 by 17th Street Productions, an Alloy, Inc. company, and Clea Hantman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  *They’re almost annoyingly perky but fun to hang out with if you’re in the right mood.

  *A harplike thing that Apollo usually plays day and night. It really bothers many of his god neighbors.

  *The sun was stubborn and stayed where it wanted to until the hunky and powerful Apollo rode his chariot by and demanded the sun set or rise.

  **His loving virgin twin sis who spent her days getting out her frustrations by killing wild beasts.

  *In essence the god hell. It’s an ugly, dirty, abominable place, unfortunately ruled by the dastardly evil three, the Furies.

  * A hairy high school boy, who may or may not have been controlled by the Furies, who in book 1 used my sister for her artistic genius only to humiliate her on open-mike night by stealing her song and discrediting her honor. We then stole his memory.

  * This happened once before—the summer of 756 B.C. at the Oracle Hall. Dionysus had thrown the wildest party. Gods and mortals and monsters attended, and after a little too much sweet ambrosia Thaumas the Monstrous threw up. Well, that sight, a hideous creature throwing up mountains of white puffy crème, sent the entire party into a vomiting fit. The Oracle Hall was never used again, but from that day forward it was nicknamed the Vomitorium.

  *Winged chick demons pretty much responsible for all disease and death.

  * Half men, half goats who mostly hang out with my wild and crazy cousin Dionysus.

  * A seriously evil girl with snakes for hair and eyes that can turn you into stone.

  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Contents

  Prologue

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  Twenty-One

  About the Author

  Credits

  Copyright

  About the Publisher