Myrrha (short story)

As Shirley Spencer lies catatonic, entries from her diary describe how a visit by an old school friend from Greece gradually destroyed her life — and indicate parallels with classical mythology.

"Myrrha" was a finalist for the 1963 Hugo Award for Short Fiction.^[1]

At Galactic Journey, Gideon Marcus found it to be "dreamy, humorless, (and) unpleasant", while conceding that he "might have liked it more had (he) understood it."^[2] Piers Anthony considered it "an utterly savage story of revenge for a personal slight."^[3]