Eros's Insane: A Short Story

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The organized universe drove Eros insane. Everything was always placed perfectly; like it was meticulously thought out to maintain absolute control of the universe. Every turn of his head would send his curly, brown hair flopping over and his matching, chocolate eyes into a daze of red. The gray, frosted mountains sent his well defined, muscular chest into a frenzy and caused his heart to beat so fast it burned. Pedestals for all important gods and goddesses surrounded him, sending him into an even deeper fit of rage.
Eros often chose for his companions to fall in love with an ugly beast out of jealousy just as his mother had taught him. He would even send them into endless love triangles and take pleasure in watching the Merry-Go-Round with

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