Taino Stories

12 year old Nazaria continues to have these strange lucid dreams, but when she explains them to family and peers they brush it off. It isn't until a visit to her Abuela's home in Manati, Puerto Rico, where she finally gets an answer to her questions. Only issue? they aren't dreams.

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There are rumors on the island that a woman bewitches men and all cruel humans. She has her feet backwards.

This is a story using my indigenous Taino heritage language. Each story with a lesson about life.

This is not a book I'm just showing off my quinceanera❣️

Sooo I just watched Wakanda Forever and.... I cried a lot But I think we can all agree that Namor is fineeeeeee. So here we are making a fanfic of him. This fanfic is going to be adding the Taino culture (because I'm puertorican) and the name of the god you see on the title is the god of sun of the taínos, and this will be a male reader because we all love a twink Latino. You are the sun of a god at least that's what you're 30 moms tells you but your adoptive dad is a Cacique you were basically a prince until...

This story follows how one woman turned into the most feared and well known of Caribbean folklore characters - La Diablesse (loosely translated as She Devil) a creature of fantastic beauty with a telltale cloven hoof that lures men to their death.

Marisol was born and raise in Puerto Rico. An island known as the island of enchantment. However, Marisol was not able to see the good parts of the island or what it offers and instead wanted to finish her last year of high school and move to the USA. A fateful meeting with a taino girl might be the thing that opens her eyes and the people who live on the island. To what is happening to it and how the taino girl and the island are suffering. Some of the dialogue will be in Spanish, but I will have translation at the end.

Alberto is the son of Daniel Rodriguez the youngest U.S. 1st star general in decades and an unknown mothers. For the first sixteen years of his life he has done all he could not to bring disruption to his family, but on his sixteenth birthday something happened, his birth mother comes to greet him revealing she is the Goddess Hel and Alberto is her son.

Book Four in the "Starforged Sagas" series of tales. In a world much like our own, a single cosmic event will shape the lives of billions and the destinies of thousands. Civilization will never be the same again. In a world of civil unrest, unconscionable warfare, economic strife, and political posturing, the legacy of a people thought extinct will echo into the modern world. Alexander Curry, "Xander" to his family and friends, is a humble man who lives for life on the ocean. Growing up in Key West, FL, his father dragged him aboard just about every boat in the harbor. His mother having succumbed to an illness when he was only eight, he only knew life with his dad. Being a "half-breed" didn't make anything a picnic. His father is the typical Florida man with European heritage. His mother was Puerto Rican and Taino. Xander saw his share of dirty looks and mistrust around the harbor and the town. When the mysterious energy hits Earth, Xander's world is turned upside down and he faces an entirely new avenue of discrimination. Having enough, he sets sail in his personal vessel to find answers, himself, and perhaps the wisdom of his ancestors. (( Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91frtrftNJw )) [ This is a part of a literary universe. If you would be interested in participating, contact me for details. ]

PhD Student Maria Yuquibo finds herself stranded on an unfathomably immense structure out in the middle of space whose surface holds not only endless space, but dark, endless rabbit holes on the nature of the galaxy and her existence. From lost societies, and political upheaval, to creatures with extra-dimensional power. What is this place? Where or when is it? How, and why did it come about? And most importantly who could build such a structure? Maria must navigate it all if she wants to find answers and get herself home.

With this story we see a fictional perspective of the Taino Spirituality. Is a story about a girl who get lost in the woods in spiritual grounds. Cover Artwork by ASR Picture taking by JRC

Yuracan is a Taino God who has had enough of humans. Will he smite them? Will he play a game of Botey ball against them? Find out in Yuracan and the Lost Winds.

Perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Chronicles of Narnia. Irene Rosales Vivas is so stoked for summer to start. She daydreams about playing on her gameboy and 123 Pescao with her little brother, Alejandro, and hanging out with friends at the beaches of San Juan. Then her mami packs up the whole family in Papi's car and sets their destination for her estranged abuelo's home in Camuy. Upon meeting her abuelo, she notices how dismissive he is to her mami and how he makes everything about himself, souring her impression of the man. The last thing Irene expected was to find a huge mirror covered in Taíno markings in his office. When she and Alejandro touch it, a portal bursts to life. And to make things worse, her abuelo pushes them both through it, thrusting them into a world of magic, monsters, and where the gods are as real as you and me. Speaking of gods, on Irene and Alejandro's arrival, she accidentally cuts her hand on a statue which awakens an ancient Cacica, a warmongering chieftain whose magic was so powerful she had to be sealed away in stone. Now the gods have tasked them with the responsibility of finding and destroying the Cacica's amulet, the item that allows her to summon and control hupías, bad spirits which wreak havoc on the living. Sounds easy, right? Irene and Alejandro hoped so. Otherwise, the Cacica's first order of business would be sacrificing them to restore their abuelo to his prime so he can stand at her side and conquer everything in their path.

After a tragic event in their childhood, twins Amara and Armando are driven away from the place they used to call their home. Years later, the possibility of another loss is what brings them back. Amara can see faceless mythological beings that others -including her brother- are not able to detect. The eerie gift will help them uncover the mystery surrounding a plethora of disappearances tied to the area around their old home; and finally understand why their superstitious grandmother is so wary of lurkers among the trees.

a short story about a NY neighborhood in the 60s that deals with race relations and hate crimes

A narrative anthology based on the American Oracle and my life as the Amsterdam Terror - my God, God of Jocks

A short story that weaves a narrative of a courageous Taino young woman and what happens to her and her people at Columbus' arrival. Her name is Yuiza and this is how I imagined her story went.

Story about envy and how can change who we are.