The mythographer Fulgentius allegorizes Cerberus’ three heads as representing the three origins of human strife: “nature, cause, and accident”. I’ve got no idea which one of us is which, but I can tell you that the Floridian head has a new story. Check out Matthew Sanborn Smith’s story Stars so Sharp They Break the Skin at Apex Magazine.
If you’re the kind of person who likes to know how the sausage is made, Andrea Johnson interviews the unsinkable Mr. Smith here. It’s a good one folks.