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Born in the south of Mexico, she was raised in rebel Zapatista autonomous municipalities to later settle down in San Cristobal de las Casas where she cofounded ''La Casa de las Flores'', a non-profit dedicated to educate, feed and care for the marginalized children living on extreme poverty in the streets of her city. After graduating from Nursing school she enrolled in Biotechnology and Astrophysics.
600 Second Saga — Pocket-Sized Fiction
It's a psychological fact that reading, watching and hearing fiction helps activate regions of the brain responsible for empathy, a better understanding of others and flexibility of perspective. Fiction also reportedly produces some sort of reality simulation that, according to Keith Oatley, an emeritus professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto, have proved to help people solve interpersonal troubles and challenges better than those who are not exposed to it.
Perhaps one of the best things we can do for our brains is daily micro-dosing with creative short stories — and for this quest, 600 Second Saga is perfect.
Mariah Avix, co-author of “In the Shadow of Monsters”, created for us an anthology audio drama with over 100 different stories, all of them with enthralling and absorbing plots. None of them are longer than what it takes to get ready in the morning, allowing us this way to adventure into a new world and a new life weekly, and to get lost inside all of its twists and curls.
