ISLA is a serialized novel with new chapters added weekly.
ISLA : Pop fresh batteries into your Walkman and follow twelve-year-old George Perez from Chicago to the Yucatán coast, where myth isn’t as dead as it seems.
With every step, the line blurs further between memory, music, and a history he can’t ignore.
Chapters
Chapter One | “Snakes, Jolt and the City” | In a tension-filled apartment where every argument hisses, twelve-year-old George escapes into his vivid imagination.
Chapter Two | “The Ticking Begins” | Riding a bus through the Chicago morning, George's mind wanders as he envisions a plane plummeting down, down, down.
Chapter Three | “Voice of Legends” | At a college radio station, George sees his father in full mythic form—but on the ride home, the cracks start to show.
Chapter Four | “The Bedtime Story” | A mythical journey wrapped in a bedtime story. One that could change George's life forever.
Chapter Five | “Pez Doblado” | Pencils scrape, a shape reemerges, and the wind turns cold.
Chapter Six | “Patterns, Part 1” | The flight to Phoenix is boarding but George is hearing something else.
Chapter Seven | “Juxtaposition” | A lesson in music, myth and decisions with no easy answer.
Chapter Eight | “Patterns, Part 2” | George makes a daring move that could change their trajectory.
Chapter Nine | The Creation Story | A retelling of the Maya creation myth from the Popol Vuh.
Chapter Ten | “Give ‘em hell, kid!” | In the air George and Kathryn have a standoff about what happens next.
Chapter Eleven | ¡Bienvenidos! | On the ground, George attempts to navigate he and Kathryn a step closer to the island.
Chapter Twelve | “Normal” | Kathryn slips into the past while George hunts for clues—each haunted by something they won’t name.
Chapter Thirteen | “Dreams” | Grabbing, clawing for the glyph in a watery dream before the darkness comes.
Chapter Fourteen | “The Lion” | George contemplates his lineage in this new place and finds himself at a crossroads to help a local.
Chapter Fifteen | “What’s Owed?” | George tails the Lion and meets mischief in the form of two boys.
Chapter Sixteen | “Monsters” | Kathryn awakens to the truth of their budget accomodations and confronts George with an uncomfortable truth.
Chapter Seventeen | “La Boca Vieja” | A muttered word, a hidden thing behind the bar and in the eyes.
Chapter Eighteen | “la Caída Azul, Part One” | George runs. Toward the water, toward myth, toward freedom.
Chapter Nineteen | “Leaving the age of wonder” | A sermon at the church of music.
Chapter Twenty | “la Caída Azul, Part Two” | An electric touch, the mountain, the shoreline.
Chapter Twenty-One | Lady Blood | A forbidden tree, a talking skull. Connecting the past to the future.
Chapter Twenty-Two | Island, Alone | A maze brings George into the depth of the island.
Chapter Twenty-Three | Echoes | A forced basketball game, a book, a record, a bedroom.
Chapter Twenty-Four | Details | Dull knives turn sharp as Kathryn and Roberto delve into the past.
Chapter Twenty-Five | Treading Water | Roberto opens a mystery beneath the island. All is not well.
Chapter Twenty-Six | Nicte | An island local discovers a gift while George is treated to a viewing of the stars.
Chapter Twenty-Seven | Two Halves Of The Same Story | Hungry and alone, George stumbles on the past.
Chapter Twenty-Eight | All Creatures | Nicte watches George from afar but finds she might be part of a bigger story.
Chapter Twenty-Nine | The Mosquito Spy | The Twins enlist a special confidant ahead of them to the underworld.
Chapter Thirty | The House Of Echoes | George and Nicte are lost in the dark with sound as their only guide.
Chapter Thirty-One | No Welcome Fires | Kathryn pushes her way through the island in search for George but Roberto starts to consider other plans.
Chapter Thirty-Two | The House Of Shapes | The bedtime story echoes in the underground cave George and Nicte have found themselves.
Chapter Thirty-Three | Isla de Ixchel | An interlude from Shadows and Echoes to 1531, the creation of the archive.
Chapter Thirty-Four | Xibalba | A table full of food for George and Nicte but their hosts may not be what they appear.
Chapter Thirty-Five | The Chosen One | George finds himself at the end of the journey but it’s not exactly what he suspected.
Chapter Thirty-Six | Epilogue | Squeak.
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Chapter Notes | A few, usually brief, thoughts about each chapter. Warning: May contain spoilers.
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