Whenifall Stories

WINNER OF THE MOST ORIGINAL STORY IN THE CORONA AWARDS 2020. ''I once told a butterfly that humans need to pay for their sins, and the butterfly carried my word across the seas.'' The fires in Australia took away her home, so Kayla moved to Wuhan. But then she found a conch -part of her grandma's culture and everything went down hill from there. '' My grandma was Mayan.'' '' Then don't take it. Magic is stronger on your own kin.'' So it is Coronavirus really a virus created in the lab, a weapon of the Chinese government or simply the result of a Mayan curse? ''I felt a lump in my chest, it was like a blood clot had exploded, but I patched up my wounds and opened my diary. There are two words I've written on that page; one was the Chinese word - Pòhuài( 破坏) for destruction, and the other was the Yucatec word - Kimen - for death.'' Find out ... if you dare!

She is a victim to a dangerous, mysterious captor. The once innocent girl is now trapped in a world of darkness. Fighting for survival as a doll to a demented man's mind, she has to learn new rules to save herself. In her lonely reality, she has to battle her own inner demons and also the demons of her abductor's to potentially one day find freedom. Finding freedom, however, can become quite an obstacle when she seems to find herself attached to the tormenter determined to keep her.

'Para tayong isang malayang tula na kahit kailan ay hindi mag tutugma.'