#STRANGELIT: KILLER SEASONS
by various authors
Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy
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RESTO RESCUE by Maita Rue
“All werewolf Rafe Redmoon really wanted was to cook real food not host reality food shows. Thirteen seasons in Resto Rescue has made him cranky and moody. Resto Rescue is a food reality show where Rafe uses his supernatural skills to ascertain what was wrong with the food and remodel the restaurant as a whole. His boss/alpha/aunt Vivian made him a deal. Make a killer season thirteen ender and she will personally fund the dream restaurant Rafe wanted. Easy, right?
Season thirteen doesn’t go as planned when the restaurant in question was not a disaster. Food was good and the décor was quirky but it worked. So, why were things not going according to the scripts? For one, owner/cook Daria is averse to change. The little hottie was not the one who called for a restaurant make-over. But Rafe is very drawn to her. His aunt threatened to fillet him if this episode fails. Then, more trouble arises when a pack of gremlins wreak havoc in the kitchen. It seems everyone is conspiring for Rafe to fail.
Will the werewolf reality show host make a killer season thirteen ender or will season thirteen end him?”
Read the full excerpt here.
The author:
Meet Maita Rue, author and designer. She loves romance and happy endings. Her love of words has pushed her to write and publish her books. She’s a single mother of four dogs and an aunt of one grumpy cat.
LAST NIGHT OF HER WAKE by Chrissie Peria
There is a wake in Sitio Lumawig.
A young woman, barely seventeen, left her hometown, only to return home in a wooden box.
Brutally murdered, there are no witnesses. Nobody knows what happened. When it happened. Or who did it.
All they know is that there was pain—so much pain in her passing.
As her father keeps vigil over her battered body, a single question keeps him company.
Who is to blame for his daughter’s death?
Read the full excerpt here.
The author:
When not obsessing over fictional people doing fictional things, Chrissie obsesses about food: the eating, the cooking, and the procuring of it.
An advertising copywriter in her past life, she now spends most of her time writing, taking photos, cooking, and babysitting a tiny human and a curly-haired dog. She still plays with dolls and she thinks that bacon is the answer.
Her first book, All’s Fair in Blog and War, was awarded Best Romance in English at the 2014 Filipino Readers’ Choice Awards.
On the Web: http://www.chrissieperia.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/peria.chrissie
Twitter: @chrissieperia
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/chrissieperia
Instagram: @kaoko25
HOUSE OF SILVER: A CURSEBREAKER NOVEL by C.P. Perez
A long-enduring family curse sends twenty-five-year old Antonio Lucero, in truth an Immortal, in search of the Cursebreakers. His journeys lead him to two siblings, young orphans from a ghastly rebellion.
Ironically, only those of the Lucero bloodline have the potential to be a Cursebreaker. The siblings—Raul and Beatriz—possess it. If Antonio dares awaken that potential, only two things can happen: either they themselves would be doomed to Immortality, or would emerge a Cursebreaker, who was mortal and can be slain. Weaving through the changing times, Antonio and the siblings find themselves amidst family intrigue, creatures of light and shadows, and earning the trust of a boy who could finally end their chaotic struggle.
Will the Luceros be finally purged of the maddening curse, or will Antonio, Raul, and Beatriz fall into a pit of perpetual despair?
Read the full excerpt here.
The author:
C.P.Perez is an avid daydreamer, taking all sorts of writing jobs here and there while inching her way to a Master’s degree. She majored in Literature at De La Salle University Manila, which further kindled her love for the written word. Her major inspirations are J.R.R. Tolkien, Tamora Pierce, Ray Bradbury, and Lloyd Alexander. Cats, Coffee, and Cosplay fuel her enthusiasm for life as she works her way to becoming a novelist, one small step at a time.
THE MYTH MENAGERIE by Lana Garcia
Vivian used to think the only connection she has with her mysterious and eccentric aunt is their crazy first name. She’s as straight-laced as anyone can get: law school, steady boyfriend, part-time job. When her aunt dies and bequeaths her a sprawling house in New Manila, she finds herself suddenly being chased by kapres in grocery stores and dreaming of white ladies during daytime. Maybe, there’s a connection there, if only she accepts her inheritance.
Read the full excerpt here.
The author:
Lana Garcia lives in Metro Manila. This is her first published story, but she wishes to weave some more stories in science fiction and noir, which are her first, true loves. She tweets at @sueleighs.
VENGEANCE: THE AWAKENING by Arlene Manocot
Cleo Harwite, a simple college student, is aiming for a normal life. A life where she and her family can eat a complete set of meal three times a day. A life to live through simplicity.
Everything is going according to her plan. Graduating on the 4th year of her college is her main objective and finding a job will be her next, but not until Eve appears in her consciousness.
Eve, according to Cleo’s judgment, is her conscience. An annoying conscience who is continually teasing and nagging her. Her disposition has lost its equilibrium ever since her existence. She has brought chaos in her life. And just when Cleo thought that there won’t be anyone, “”AS IN NO ONE””, who’s more annoying and disturbing than Eve, another one appears. Ikeda Takada.
Ikeda Takada, a Japanese exchange student for a week, has found a way to infiltrate the supposed to be Cleo’s “”NORMAL LIFE””. Aside from being an exchange student, he is a model / actor who is just starting his career in Hollywood. Why would a Hollywood celebrity like him want in a public university? That is insanely ridiculous from her point of view.
With all the chaos and disturbance directed towards Cleo, would she be able to keep her NORMAL LIFE intact?
Read the full excerpt here.
The author:
I am a writer on the process of building my name of becoming a main household in the publishing industry, but still on the process of gathering backgrounds and experiences on this career. Yeah. I dream big, but when I fail it really gets me down. Getting down leads me to write poems and stories and I will dream big again, then when I fail it gets me down again and I can write again. So, in short it’s a cycle. I write my works in any genre, but 3/4 of them is about romance. Feel free to visit my page on facebook.com/manocot.arlene or e-mail me at arlenemanocot@gmail.com. See you there!
AT THE WISHING WELL by Amae Dechavez
A Paranormal Fairytale. Angelo studies medicine—he’s aspiring to become a priest. From the city to his countryside home, he falls in love at the forest well, with a ghost, and he still wants to become a priest! Now his father wants him to marry the Mayor’s daughter, Marissa (aside from nudging him to become a physician), and girl-ghost Hinata scares Marissa so much, enough to ban her from The Bliss!
Read the full excerpt here.
The Author:
Amae Dechavez was born in Quezon City, Philippines to a mother from Baguio and father from Quezon Province. She studied Child Daycare Management from Penn Foster and currently resides (with her dog) within the suburbs of Metro Manila. You can find her on Twitter.
INTERSECTION by Den Lim
Anger. Pain. Guilt.
These feelings have haunted Epy Avenida for the past six years. Once an aspiring superhero, he had failed to save the life of Congressman Conrad Cruz. Now he roams the streets of Manila as something much darker, much less of a hero.
Need. Hate. Fury.
These are the feelings Kala Cruz has hidden and carried within since the dead of her father. She won’t rest until she knows the truth of that fateful day. Now she seeks to find the superhero who had let her father die and exact vengeance.
Past and present collide as their two lives intersect one night and the sparks fly between them.
But how will their budding romance survive once they uncover each other’s secrets?
Read the full excerpt here.
The author:
Den Lim has been creating characters since he was a kid. He grew up over a steady diet of comics, detective novels and YA books. And yes, he has even read Sweet Valley High.
He currently resides in Metro Manila with his wife and two sons. He plans to supplement the lack of daughters by creating imaginary ones and writing about them in his stories.
He has previously written two introspective essays entitled “Got a Girlfriend Yet?” and “Midlife Crisis at 21” for the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Young Blood section.
Intersection is his first published work in fiction.
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You can visit him at www.denlim.com.
You also contact him via email at denlim.writer@gmail.com and via twitter @dragonmoon174.
DISAPPEARING ACT by Roselle de Guzman
Rhea De Los Reyes is in a situation that’s unique in terms of teenager problems: no one ever sees her. Ever since high school, she’s been stuck this way, always alone even in a crowded room. She’s ready to just fade away, until an awkward, well-meaning boy with no math skills see her for the first time.
Read the full excerpt here.
The author:
Roselle De Guzman is a writer, an artist, and a Lit-Eng Major in the Ateneo De Manila University. She’s a nerd, a weird-thinker, and a fast-talker, but her imagination for stories is something that’s entirely different from the norm.
THE “FORGET YOU” BREW by Tara Frejas
For 20-year old Kyle Thomson, nothing in the world is more terrifying than the prospect of telling Allison Jeon that he loves her. That is, until he finds out that this mystical café in a peculiar place called Nowheretown had served her a cup of afforgeto—a brew for forgetting—a drink she ordered intending to forget him. Hoping to reverse the spell, Kyle reluctantly teams up with a bunny-eared hopeless romantic and a badass barista to retrieve Allison’s memory jar from the Repository of the Intangible. But when stealing back forgotten memories doesn’t quite turn out as expected, Kyle is left with no choice but to conquer his biggest fear. Can the magic of Nowheretown supply him a fixer-upper, or will the magic in his steadfast heart be enough to grant them their happy ever after?
Read the full excerpt here.
The author:
Tara Frejas is a cloud-walker who needs caffeine to fuel her travels. By day, she works in project management and events, and she writes down her daydreams at night. Tara loves the “”friends to lovers”” trope so much, it appears in this story twice. She owns a six-month old male bunny, Max, who inspired the beginnings of this fictional piece and likes to try nibbling on her writing notes.
If Nowheretown were real, you’d find her pretending to get things done at Kaipuhan Kafe, when she’s really stealing glances at the badass barista. The “”Forget You”” Brew is her second published work after Paper Planes Back Home.
tarafrejas.com | taratriestowrite.wordpress.com | @ttriestowrite
AURELIA by Japonicus
Aurelia had never, at any point in her entire young life, been anyplace that could be called “fun.” Not that it mattered, anyway, since she’d been devoid of life for quite some time.
A drowned child, her spirit now flows wherever the currents take her. Confused yet strangely unconcerned about her circumstances, she was quite content to just be… until one day a theme park’s intake pump suddenly suctions her out of the bay and into “”The Most Amazing Aquatic Experience Above the Sea!””
Now, for the first time in her afterlife, she finds herself in a happy place where everyone seems to be enjoying themselves, and she decides that she’d like to have some fun, too. Yet as she explores the ins & outs of this park, she notices that what happens after the park closes is not quite as joyful as during normal visiting hours, and she slowly comes to realize that one person’s fun might have been paid for by another’s misery.
Read the full excerpt here.
The author:
Zoologist by training, writer on the side. Personal advocacy is to disseminate as much information as possible about the natural world to laymen, especially fellow Filipinos. Recently discovered that he can use his writing skills to make this happen.
j_pbl@yahoo.com
japbaulim@gmail.com
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