Book 12: Sea Perils and Defeat

I...am...soo...tired!! After continuing my exhausting journey to the island of Aiaia. I had my crew bury the body of little Elpenor from the island of Kierke. Before departing the island, however,Kierke describes to me all of the obstacles I will be facing in the near future!! Just the thought of having to go through all of them makes my head spin! Nonetheless, we set sail for the beautiful island of the Seinrenes, having been forwarned of them by Kierke, I carved balls of hot wax and put them in to the ears of my crew so they would not hear the depressing songs that came from the lips of the dreaded sea nymphs. Unfortunatley, the seductive songs of the Seirenes penetrated my brain claiming to tell tales of my future, and myself, being a ladies man, could barley resist their strings of depressing notes. Let me tell you though, the daunting tales of the Seirenes were nothing compared to what I had to endure next, navigating in between the straits of Skylla, an enormous six headed monster and Kharybdis a huge whirlpool, that threatens to swallow our entire ship. Per Kierke's instructions, our ships sails into the dangerous waters of Skylla's lair. I watch in horror as it swallows up six of my crew members, on for each head. Overwhelmed with guilt, but knowing I had to press onward, we continued to sail to the island of Thrinacia, or the island of the Sun, wanting to avoid it entirely, I begin to steer our ship away, but Eurylokhos convinced me to land there. Much to our disamy, a severe storm keeps out ship planted on the island for a majority of the month!! And you know what happens after being stranded on an island for a moth...YOU RUN OUT OF FOOD! And of course, my so called "loyal" crew decides, in the middle of the night may I add, to slaughter the cattle of the island of the Sun. This desgraceful act by my crew angered the "God all mighty Zeus" and he sends another destructive storm out way, taking the lives of my entire crew, excluding myself of course!!
I am still getting over the loss of my entire crew and that is all of the information I care to share with you right now
-Odysseus