Muros: The Cemetery Girl #1

Muros: The Cemetery Girl #1

by Paolo Chikiamco, Borg Sinaban (Illustrator)

For much of recent history, the Philippines was sealed away from the rest of the world by a magical wall called the Muros, ruled by Sitan, the God of Despair. Now, with Sitan defeated, Manila has become an Open City, and travel to and from the outside world has become possible for the first time since the summoning of Sitan after the Bataan Death March. In this story, a young Taga-sagot named Caloy Loyzaga agrees to find a missing girl in In this alternate Manila, a place where magic mixes with technology, and vengeance is currency.

30 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2015

About the author

A lawyer by training and a writer by inclination, in 2009 Paolo resigned from one of the top law firms in the country to establish Eight Ray Sun Publishing Inc., driven to take advantage of the burgeoning ebook market to allow Filipino Speculative Fiction authors a chance, not only to reach an international audience, but to eventually make a living from writing.

Paolo’s articles have appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Online Chronicles, and Code RED Magazine. His stories have appeared in the Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, A Time for Dragons, and the Farthest Shore. He won third place in the 2009 Carlos Palanca Awards in the Short Story for Children (English) category. His greatest escapade was sneaking in to watch Total Recall when he was 12 years old. It was totally not worth it.