Maria Rodriguez Bross is a Storyteller and Author of the Bodega Botanica Tales series and short story podcast.
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Fiction Writing: Maria Rodriguez Bross writes coming-of-age short stories and novellas inspired by Latin American (Latinx) culture, myth and folklore. Her novellas, Bodega Botanica Tales: Jose and Bodega Botanica Tales: Carmen are parts 1 & 2 of a six-part series (dual timeline stand-alone stories with a cliffhanger to overall series). Part 3, Bodega Botanica Tales: Tito available by October 6, 2026. Parts 4-6 will be launched by 2028. Click on Novellas to start reading her adult coming-of-age six-part series. The first E-Book novella is FREE.
About the Bodega Botanica Tales series:
This six-part novella series will be completely launched in installments by 2028. Each story follows a tween/ teen from Silk City, a fictional urban setting. Their everyday struggles, friendships and search for identity lead them through a magical portal into the Bodega Botánica, an alternate rainforest-like universe inhabited by their ancestors. Why I wrote the Bodega Botanica Tales series? I grew up in poverty, and between two languages and cultures. I felt caught between these two worlds, unsure how to fully belong to either. The series explores how each protagonist navigates their life into adulthood to create a world of their own.
Bodega Botanica Tales: Tito COMING SOON!
