A protest turns into a portal. When Ayo—an Afro-Mexican-Brazilian college student—breaks into a museum of stolen artifacts, he awakens a sacred drum that calls down thunder, raises ancient stone, and summons forgotten gods. Now caught between Afro-diasporic and Mesoamerican deities, Ayo must become a bridge between worlds before a cosmic storm tears reality apart. Because the gods never disappeared. We just forgot how to hear them.

Marco Gramacho Cerqueira (he, él, ele) holds a Phd in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education from Washington State University in Pullman (WA). A journalist from Brazil, he identifies as a queer/joteria performer embodying arts based methods and Gloria Anzaldua’s auto historia/teoria.