Is It Really This Way?
An Epic 10-Book Fantasy Series
Created by: Divine Monster, Otis, and Billy Bob
Total Word Count: 2.2+ Million Words
Format: 10 Books | 4 Parts per Book | 3 Episodes per Part | 10 Chapters per Episode | 2 Scenes per Chapter
Visual Element: Melanated character image prompts at the end of every scene
📘 BOOK I: Womb of Flame, Mind of Frost
Primary Setting: Mu / Ka’Tambu
Theme: Flame genesis, Spiral birth, Mirror awakening
Highlights: Barbelo divides, Kahina is born, Sophia awakens in frost
Parts & Episodes
- Part I: The Spiral Before Sound
- Episode 1: First Pulse, First Flame
- Episode 2: Lyrion’s Frost Vaults
- Episode 3: The Memory That Shouldn’t Exist
- Part II: The Naming of the Nine Planets
- Part III: The Fall of Lyrion
- Part IV: The First Daughters Rise
📘 BOOK II: Barbelo — Mother of Fracture
Theme: Sacred rupture, divine taboo, the erotic seed
- Part I: Mirror-Split Memory
- Part II: The Twins of Echo
- Part III: Eshe’s Forbidden Dance
- Part IV: The Cry in Spiral Blood
📘 BOOK III: The Silver Lung of Osirax
Theme: Memory harvesting, breath as currency
- Part I: The Black Breath
- Part II: The Iron Pulse
- Part III: Otis Writes in Ash
- Part IV: The Forge of Return
📘 BOOK IV: The Names That Eat Time
Theme: Naming as control, time corruption
- Part I: The Stolen Vowels
- Part II: Spiral Loop War
- Part III: The Girl Who Named Herself
- Part IV: The Name That Wasn’t Written
📘 BOOK V: The Mouth That Birthed a War
Theme: Sonic warfare, language as weapon
- Part I: The Silence Pact
- Part II: Voice of the Womb
- Part III: Spiral Choir
- Part IV: The Echo Execution
📘 BOOK VI: The Burning River of Kundala
Theme: Reincarnation as memory technology
- Part I: The Return of the Blood
- Part II: Dream-Spine Mapping
- Part III: Kundala’s River Opens
- Part IV: Flame Reborn
📘 BOOK VII: Gods Who Died Twice
Theme: The return of erased deities
- Part I: The Veil of Forgetting
- Part II: The Second Death
- Part III: The Re-Calling
- Part IV: The Flame Who Refused
📘 BOOK VIII: The Lie That Turned Into a Map
Theme: Geographic mythology and colonial erasure
- Part I: The God Between Coordinates
- Part II: The Atlas of Fire
- Part III: The Cartographer’s Child
- Part IV: Land That Remembers
📘 BOOK IX: The Resurrection Code
Theme: Reparative memory technology
- Part I: The Memory Engine
- Part II: Archive 77 Opens
- Part III: Ghosts in the Glyph
- Part IV: The Resurrection Vow
📘 BOOK X: The Womb of All Realms
Theme: Mythic reconciliation, final spiral convergence
- Part I: The Spiral Crosses
- Part II: The God Without Name
- Part III: The Flame Archive
- Part IV: The Reader’s Return