Submerged in a toxic relationship and disconnected from everyone, she turns to the sea to decide her fate. Its decision? Toss her to the sea witch.
Seventeen-year-old Malaya is cursed. In her family, every girl’s first love ends in death after falling for someone evil. Good thing Malaya’s dream guy isn’t monstrous.
Except the curse is real and preventing Malaya from noticing how much he has gaslit and isolated her until she can’t be saved. With no other options, the sea witch is the only one to help her. Bartering her voice for a new life where she and her abusive boyfriend never met, Malaya accidentally swaps places with an alternate timeline version of herself who didn’t make her mistakes. As she tries to undo the switch, the sea witch uses Malaya’s voice to unleash Filipino mythological creatures into the worlds.
Can a champion, an alternate timeline sister, and Malaya fight these beasts and stop the sea witch before she destroys both timelines?
This is PRE-ORDER for the OwlCrate Press limited edition of MONSTERS IN MASQUERADE edited by Robin Alvarez!
This haunting collection of 16 stories weaves together myth, horror, and romance, each tale designed to linger long after the last page.
Imagine Once Upon a Time meets Penny Dreadful–where legends from various cultures are reimagined by an extraordinary roster of bestselling, emerging, and brand-new authors, including Isabel Cañas, Angela Montoya, Sami Ellis, Gabi Burton, Robin Alvarez, Megan LaCroix, Amanda M. Helander, A.Y. Chao, Vanessa Molina, Ann K. Reeves, Fatima Taqvi, Carolyn Ivancic, Hayden Stone, Cat Rector, Sarah Mughal Rana, and Jordan Fleming.
So dim the lights, grab a drink, and step into our Masquerade.
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Some people think dying is the end, but souls know better.
Souls choose to come to Earth. They choose all the good and all of the bad. They choose to grow by creating soul contracts.
But what happens when one of them breaks that contract? What happens to a soul family divided?
Solana grows up feeling isolated from the world, despite living in a wonderful community and having a loving family. She inherently knows something is missing: her people. But when people start dying to keep her from leaving her home town, Solana starts to wonder if she's just a girl stuck in a small town or a soul in exile.
Abomination is the short story beginnings of "Starseed."
Tala, a soul who has killed her twin flame in several human lifetimes, must now choose between killing Chesa again or saving herself from the wrath of Chesa's soul mate Altheo.
"Some lessons are harder to learn in one lifetime."
As Co-Literary Editor, the 2022 literary journal "The Sage" is fused with a mixture of speculative fiction, poetry, and art that covers social and political themes in an artistic space and represents the diversity Alpine, Texas.
A 17-year-old surfs during a hurricane, while inside another storm rages against her abusive, cheating boyfriend.
The Sage is an award-winning literary journal of creative expression.
I write for the newest publication in The Coastal Bend: The Bend Business. This is issue number one. The newest issue is to be released soon!