Sisyphus

The following is a draft of the first chapter for Athena, the second novel in the series, The Desert Road of Night.

January 17, 1997

This was now the routine.

His life.

Day in.

Day out.

Andrés would wake up in the middle of the night to feed and soothe his crying daughter, Estefania, nicknamed Daphne. He would then stay up until she was asleep again. Instead of going back to bed, Andrés would take that opportunity, with the free time only found for parents of children in …