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Fragments

Long ago, the town of Selve was cursed when a witch, for reasons only she knows, turned its people into monsters and vanished soon after. For centuries now, Selve has lived with the curse unbroken, learning to maintain an uneasy normal between humans and the old spirits. But when high-schooler Geina finds herself cursed with a glowing scar on her hand, her life is turned upside down from monsters reacting strangely to her to her strange recurring nightmares. In her search for answers, she teams up with a mischievous spirit named Havoc. The more Geina discovers, the clearer it becomes that the past of Selve and the woman who cursed it are not what they seem, and that danger follows closely behind when the truth is desperate to remain buried.

My Why:

Ever since I was a teenager myself, I’ve been pouring the feelings of being that teen into Fragments, from expectations, to stress, to the angst of finding your identity. That itself is hard enough on its own, but handling a crisis alongside that makes it so much harder. There are so many emotions that come when it feels like the world is on your shoulders, and yet out of control. And after the storm happens, how do you deal with the fear it might happen again? How do you live with your regrets? And how do you find who you are now when everything has changed?

I want to show the teen I was that while the world will break apart, it is always worth holding onto hope. Even when the impossible happens, you can always come out on the other end.