Isabella Bello Martinez
Published Author
Writing
Complete Collection
Eyes Are Windows
September 2018
Welcome to Erate, where the color of your eyes is both a mark of shame and a badge of honor. Welcome to Erate, a great continent poised on the edge of a knife, as cultures clash and secrets come to light.
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Star is a princess, whose people dream of a new age of exploration and peace. Sol is a nobody, whose people stopped dreaming long, long ago. Their unlikely friendship has the power to change everything - for the better and for the worse.
Guarded and Other Stories
March 2020
In a world where strangers read your entire life in the color of your eyes, and share power or privilege based on what they think they find there, a single city stands apart.
In that city, a group of guards is trained yearly in how to protect the fragile balance that keeps the kingdoms of Erate from plunging into another long war.
But among the tension and mistrust, friendship still blooms that is stronger than any other bond.
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This is the story of the Central City guards first introduced in Eyes Are Windows.
Journey
Featured in Brown University Magazine, Cornerstone
They sat on the bank of a dark gray river. The water lapped at the dirty grass that lined the edge of the banks, threatening to drown the vegetation all together in the disgusting sludge. A dank fog rose up from the river, blotting out the bright lights on the other side and giving the entire scene a ghostly appearance...
Overlap
First place, Fiction category, Graduate Competition for the Samuel Eells Literary Foundation, March 2020
You see, there are some places, rarer now in the age of technology, that are on this weird area of overlap with another world. For simplicity, let’s call this world Imagination Isle. Has a nice ring to it.
When The Summer Wind Calls
Online Writing Challenge: 2017
The not-so-distant future has become the present. The world has changed and we must change with it. Childhood is shorter and parenting is harder.
Ashton dreams of the sky. Jake dreams of woods filled with snow. Drew dreams of escaping the life in which he is trapped. His sister, Alex, dreams of light. They didn't ask to be different.
They didn't ask to live double lives, always lying to those around them. But they did pray for someone, anyone, to hear them crying in the dark...
Story of Isabella Bello Martinez
Isabella Bello Martinez is a graduate of Brown University (Sc.B. ‘17) and University of Notre Dame (M.S. ‘18). An engineer by training, and an entrepreneur by practice, she has been writing stories since she could string together two sentences. Guarded and Other Stories, is the second published work in the saga begun by Eyes Are Windows.