Miniature Novels II: Lured by the Shadows of Darkness

By Montse "M.B" Benavides and M. B

In this chilling second volume of miniature novels, silence speaks louder than words, and every gesture hides a wound. Miniature Novels II unearths the quiet horrors that fester beneath routine, memory, and desire - where love is a ritual, pain a habit, and endings no longer wait until the final page.

Each story unfolds like a whisper not meant to be heard, confessions stained with guilt, tenderness twisted by time, and truths too fragile to survive daylight. Through uncanny encounters and emotional ruins, Montse traces the bruised outlines of lives barely held together by hope, lust, or resignation.

With her signature lyrical detachment and razor-sharp insight, Montse continues her exploration of emotional decay and existential dread through twenty-six stories. In Miniature Novels II, she strips away the illusion of permanence and asks: What if the worst has already happened - and we're still here?

Miniature Novels:
1. Silent Betrayal: A young woman must accept losing the illusion of a destructive love that's already slipping through her fingers.
2. ill-fitted armor: Pretending to be stronger than she is, a young woman navigates emotional repression, a complicated relationship, and the quiet violence of finally feeling understood.
3. In the Absence of Sound: After years of emotional numbness, a young woman begins to learn, for the first time, how to accept tenderness and what it really means to be loved.
4. Pearls & Lingerie vol. II: Through a sensual and psychological exploration of womanhood, Jane Willards grapples with power, seduction, and the weight of being desired but never understood.
5. Where Do Pumpkins Go?: A fragmented, raw reflection on faith, grief, and power, told through the eyes of a woman broken by the men who claimed to protect her - and the god who stayed silent.
6. Afraid of Roses: In a spiral of self-destruction, a woman clings to beauty, pain, and memory as coping mechanisms - until the emotional wreckage of unhealed trauma becomes impossible to ignore.
7. Black Pearl: Ilana lures men into her world of lust and death, feeding a secret hunger she doesn't fully understand - until her mind and body begin to betray her, and the true cost of her desires emerges.

Short Stories:
8. Ceiling Man
9. One Temptation
10. Honeymoon
11. Warp
12. Blue and Green
13. Main Character
14. Bajo la mirada del anta o
15. The Buzz Diaries
16. Draconians
17. 60 Years
18. De sus paraderos

Feelings out Loud:
19. To Harlow
20. Whispers of Chance
21. Unhinged
22. Your Power
23. Why Do You Feel So Down?
24. My Head's on Your Chest
25. Imaginary Seat
26. La estrellaContent Warnings: abandonment, asphyxiation, blood, body horror, cannibalism, child abuse, child endangerment, coercion, cruelty to animals, death, death threats, drug use, emotional abuse, emotional pain, escalating violence, family trauma, graphic violence, gun violence, hallucinations, intrusion, isolation, kidnapping, manipulation, mental health struggles, murder, neglect, obsessive behavior, paranoia, parental dysfunction, physical and emotional exhaustion, physical and emotional violence, psychological distress, rape insinuation, sadism, self-doubt, self-harm, self-harm ideation, separation, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual objectification, sexual violence, spiders, substance use, suicide, trespassing, unhealthy power dynamicsFor more information, visit: www.mbnovels.com

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6072970451
• ISBN13: 9786072970458
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Montserrat Benavides Quintanilla
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"