Maya's warning
Fiction: The introduction to The Great Fire, a collection of nine short stories.
Welcome to The Great Fire.
The Great Fire is a collection of nine stories told from different perspectives but connected by the central character (and sometimes narrator), Maya.
The stories include:
The stories are designed to be read in any order but will be delivered in two parts straight to your inbox.
But first, we begin with Maya’s Warning. Read at your leisure or listen to the recording below.
Maya’s Warning
This is not a story I want to tell. Not because it isn’t true or because I’m afraid of what you’ll think. But because telling this story means that I must admit I’m a part of it and that I deserve some of the blame. Although I know none of that will matter to you.
You’ll only care about the fire.
You’ll question why I did it because of the lives that I ruined, the memories I stole and the souls that I trapped in the curses’ haze. You’ll call me a bitch, a murderer, a whore. But these are all names that I’ve heard before and you’re forgetting about the lives that my fire hoped to save.
I’ll tell you how it began but my story is entwined with others, with all the nine kingdoms. And they beg me to remember them. I do all of this so that I can show you the evil that has to be stopped.
Favian.
The name of a nobody who became a King, who then carved our history in blood. As you know, he still reigns in the Kingdom that was once mine and I tell you these stories because I’m trying to find a way to make it end.
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