I remember I was in elementary school when I wrote my earliest works of fiction. A short story was about a mannequin becoming sentient and searching for its maker, heavily influenced by the 1987 romcom Mannequin, and the other was a fable about jungle animals helping each other to overcome natural catastrophes, providing a moral […]
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A year from publishing my first novel
A year ago, on October 15th, my first novel, Vandella, was finally published. After a journey of years in the making, it was a great relief and personal accomplishment to deliver my story to the world. The reception of the readers who have dared to immerse themselves into the pages of Vandella has been extremely […]
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Are we predisposed to a certain fate?
It’s a recurrent topic of conversation to share our experiences with alcohol in social gatherings, especially those which turned to funny anecdotes. “At what age did you get drunk for the first time?” Is one of the frequent questions that come up in those conversations, and I must confess, most of the times I lie […]
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Vandella is going wide!
When I first started writing my debut novel Vandella, my aim was to share this story with the most people I could. At launch, I subscribed the book to the Kindle Unlimited program which works as a subscription to leverage on the accessibility. Now, after nine months of exclusivity, I’m expanding the distribution of Vandella’s […]
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Countdown to the End
What would you think if there was an app on your phone which could you inform you when you will die? Would you download it? Until now, the ability to divine the future and determine the time of our deaths has been an ability regarded only by mystics, witches, or charlatans. But what if dying […]
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The Fragility of Life.
The other day, my phone rang early in the morning, earlier than usual. When I answered the call, it was my childhood best friend, and I immediately knew there was something wrong. “Your mother was rushed to the hospital,” he informed with a saddened voice, and without asking what had happened, the only words I […]
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Changing Our Reality
We all have an intrinsic desire to change our reality. We wish the world could satisfy our whims. To leave our mark on this world. Transcend this life by the actions we did and what we leave behind. However, everyday we do so much in our lives, yet we seldom witness a consequence of our […]
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Silk Wings a Poem
I float suspended in an ocean of time, Coldness of my vacant future biting my bones, My past still radiating with an aching warm. Frozen are the rivers of life inside me, But even in the grimmest night, my eyes can still see, Through the crystal waters made of tears, Darkness hollows forming […]
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Can violence be truly justified?
This week the internet has been flooded with memes of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the Oscar’s ceremony. The discussion has been split mainly between two fronts. One group who believe Will Smith’s reaction was justified because Chris Rock offended his wife, Jada Pinkett, with a joke about her medical condition, arguing a case […]
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Mexican “Barbarie”
The world is undergoing turbulent times. Russian-Ukrainian war worried the entire world, fearful this conflict could escalate into WWIII. Images portrayed by the media of wounded civilians suffering the aftermath of bombings are really disheartening. As Mexican, I was heartbroken and deeply concerned about the possibility this armed conflict could push our civilization eighty years […]
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