“Island Burnt by History”
Published: March 1, 2022, in AWAKENINGS: A CUTE MUTANTS ANTHOLOGY, ed. by SJ Whitby, SJ Whitby
11,600 words
The Cute Mutants Universe keeps getting bigger! AWAKENINGS brings fourteen incredible authors together to tell their stories of mutation.
Featuring all-new original stories from: Shelly Page, Elle Tesch, Andy Perez, Hsinju Chen, Shannon Ives, Melody Robinette, Astra Daye, Yves Donlon, E.M. Anderson, Hester Steel, Monica Gribouski, Charlotte Hayward, Amanda M. Pierce, and Emma Jun.
Something has changed. People around the world are being awakened and developing strange new powers.
In Texas, a girl gains the ability to know when someone will die. In Taiwan, a man discovers he’s become a radio antenna. The residents of Oak House are hiding a whole host of secrets, and in Dorset, even the countryside is mutating. And if you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise.
Meanwhile, on the secretive island of Mutopia, someone’s watching.
In Mandarin, family names come first (Hsu, Kang, Hsieh), and since this is a pronunciation guide in Mandarin, the first syllables are their family names.
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