Mesoamerica Stories

Angélio follows a glowing butterfly through a portal to an enchanted world where he'll have to find a way to save himself and an unsuspecting city from destruction. ♧♧♧ All Angélio Moya wants for his thirteenth birthday is to hang out with his papá--like they used to. But instead, his work-for-a-living dad forgets Angélio's big day and hosts a meeting disguised as an office party at their house. Devastated but determined, Angélio flees to the backyard to sharpen his nonexistent fútbol skills in a last-ditch attempt to catch his dad's attention. Angélio's mood brightens when a glowing butterfly appears and leads him through a portal to the enchanted world of Realania. There, the butterfly transforms into a human-like creature named Roende. The two become fast friends after Roende offers to solve all of Angélio's problems. Their exciting adventures, filled with treasure hunts and encounters with fantastic beasts, eventually lead to Angélio discovering Roende's dark secret. Angélio will have to decide if he is willing to risk the fate of an entire city to make his dreams come true. ♧♧♧ This is an ONC 2023 novella based on Prompt: 29. "When you touch a mirror, it ripples like water. You dive in."

Ofrece respuestas a la mayor parte de las preguntas que se han formulado sobre México. Con un enfoque no académico describe los orígenes históricos y sociales de la situación que permaneció inmutable desde la conquista hasta antes del arribo a la Presidencia de la República del Lic. Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Facilita la comprensión del divorcio cultural entre la minoría que simpatiza con los descendientes de los conquistadores y la mayoría identificada con los pueblos originales. RENÉ IGNACIO GARCÍA FERNÁNDEZ mexicosinmentiras.com recordarparaentender.blogspot.com

Arturo Banderas is a cadejo on the run. Framed for crimes he didn't commit, he has to escape his home for the human world, but in order to hide, he'll need to learn their culture, not just their physical form. Doctora Lidia Gutierrez wants to be the first person to understand the culture of the mysterious cadejos. No one has ever found them in the daylight, and those who survived their encounters at night weren't sober enough to explain anything. At least, none who were willing to talk to Lidia. When Arturo discovers Lidia's research he proposes a trade. If she'll teach him how to blend in, he'll tell her everything he knows about the cadejos. And it works just fine until a monster in the forest pushes them closer together. Working together is the only choice they have, but every moment spent together makes it harder to imagine a time when they'll be forced apart. And they will be, unless there's a way to stop the past from catching up with them. ~ * ~ * ~ This is one of the novellas I'm writing for ONC 2023. You can find the rest on my profile! For this story, I've selected prompt #52. "There is someone you dream about every night, but you never imagine meeting them in real life."

A short series Tragedy about a Princess forced to make the decision between love or her City... In the end she must lose both.

This is a short book about a journey through Mexico that took 20 years to materialize. The book delves into the imaginary and lived existence of the Mayas, Aztecs, Toltec, Teotihuacan & modern Mexicans.

As the Mayan gods rise on the thirteenth B'ak'tun, the magic and myths from around the world intertwine. Join Sacniete Rashid, Carter Kane, Sadie Kane, Amos Kane, Zia Rashid, Annabeth Chase, Percy Jackson, Grover Underwood, Dionysus, Reyna, Frank Zhang, and others in this thrilling apocalyptic fan fiction.

It's been a decade since an apocalyptic catastrophe struck the realm. Now as the lands are recovering their once fertile vigor, An otherworldly disease has invaded, slowly wiping out the surviving Mystics. The arrival of strange men at the shores of the new world, and the rise of titanic elemental creatures have tipped the world into chaos. With the roots of its natives on the brink of annihilation, the remaining seeds of their culture must fight for survival as their memory is devoured by the disappearance of its people. Can the orphaned generations escape the onslaught of threats assailing their world? Can they even restore the lost vitality of their lands to their former glory? Will heroes be forged in the tumultuous fires of the coming war, and can they birth a better future from the ashes? * * * * * What to expect: Native American-inspired leads. Author note: Please leave any feedback by rating or commenting, so I can improve as a writer. Im a very amateur writer. im learning as I go.

The year is 1483 AD, ten years before Christopher Columbus's famous voyage to America. In Aztlan, the Aztecs have suffered significant changes in their social and religious climates. Under the weyitlatoani Moctezuma, Aztecs ceased sacrificing those that share their faith and began a renewed focus on education, prosperity, and the discovery and conquering of new lands. With this new focus came new ventures, and a floating city was built to sail across the seas in search of adventure and led by divine guidance. Eventually, this floating city would reach the shores of Portugal. The Portuguese were wrought with their own struggles at this time. The land was flooded with refugees who had fled the Reconquista and more who fled the looming Inquisition in the neighboring kingdom of Castile. The newly crowned Portuguese king, Joao II, was obsessed with the sea and the discoveries waiting across unknown waters. He dreamt of building Portugal into a new maritime superpower, but the kingdom's coffers were dry, and to rebuild the treasury, he turned to the wealthy landowners, forcefully ridding them of their property to support the building of new ships and funding voyages. At the time of our tale, Joao II has decided to strike against the wealthiest and most influential dynasty in Portugal, the House of Braganza. Duke Ferdinand II de Braganza was an influential advocate of new liberal ideals growing in Portugal and dreamt of building a new parliamentary democracy based on the Portuguese Cortes. When Joao II makes his move, de Braganza has no choice but to organize a rebellion and strike back. In this alternative historical fiction, the worlds of medieval Europe and Aztec civilization meet and clash, illuminating many questions for all ages.

~Authored by Owen Russell~ ~Respectfully Co-Authored by AriasWinter~ In the land of Merciless Tribals, Sarach Milpa's family is honored as Nobility because her father is one of the best Ulama players. But Tetatzin Milpa is near Death. And when he goes, so does his family. It was the fate that little Sarach has no chance at Survival. Humiliated, Ashamed, and Shunned, Sarach sets out on a journey to the fabled, faraway home of a legendary fire god to beg for inhuman powers to save her father from the sacrificial blade. She must take with her a slave, named Yoltlamatqui Tlacoti, to be sacrificed to the god. It will be a dark and brutal journey filled with lynch mobs, suicidal cults, terrible monsters, and worse, Monstrous men. But to Sarach, the risk is all worth it. To procure honor... To wield divine power To become the one and only. The Bloodless Girl. {Inspired by Ancient Mesoamerican Culture and Darren Shan's The Thin Executioner, Owen Russell, and Arias Winter takes readers into a Spine-chilling journey, in a Nightmarish world where Compassion and Kindness are the greatest crimes of all}