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Your guide to reading the serialized novel ISLA
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. He’s not searching for gold—he’s following the echo of a story his father left behind. And the closer he gets, the more the line blurs 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 | …coming June 24th
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