R.M. Beristáin
Bio
By day I'm a full-stack developer; by night create stories to light up the imagination.
Let's fan the flames together!
Finalist of the 2022 Vocal+ Challenge \(^-^)/
Stories (7/0)
Spiral
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. I wouldn't have noticed either had Edwin not commented. She's always quiet and it's easy to lose her against the background, so the fact that she spoke at all drew my attention more than anything she said.
By R.M. Beristáin2 years ago in Horror
The Garden of Splinters
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. Xiomara had never seen one up close before this week, and now they had two on every corner of the Zocalo. Terrifying machines they were, matte black, hulking, ruining the plaza’s marvellous cobbled streets with their massive tracks.
By R.M. Beristáin2 years ago in Fiction
The hum
Pedro walked up to the studio but stopped in silence at the threshold. Lilia made an effort to tear her face off the spreadsheets that had been giving her grief all evening and turned to face him, annoyed at the interruption. His pained expression made her heart sink.
By R.M. Beristáin2 years ago in Horror
Lake New
The lake hadn’t been there when Paul’s grandfather was a child. This wasn’t saying much, though – changing waterlines had been a fact of life for years when he was born. Despite constant raise, mangrove trees grew aplenty. Newer trees by the swampy edges held up their lush canopies on labyrinths of stilts; unfortunate older trees had drowned, leaving behind tangles of dead wood. But even those played host to life, and Paul counted dozens of ibises and mud-coloured crabs among their wrecks.
By R.M. Beristáin2 years ago in Fiction
