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about the author
BerkleyDrive or Bee, is a writer based in Manila, Philippines. She spent over a decade in journalism before turning to long-form fiction and writes literary fiction with commercial edges.
Her work uses romance and intimacy as methodology, not destination.
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about prima materia
In alchemy, prima materia is the formless base substance from which all creation emerges. It has no fixed identity. It is only potential. The thing that exists before it becomes anything specific, before gold, before lead, before any named thing. It is the oldest idea of a beginning.
This anthology works the same way.
Prima Materia collects the origin stories of a complex web of characters before their worlds collide. Before consequence, before the versions of themselves that other people will come to know. These are the volatile, unreacted elements. The building blocks. The lives people lived before anyone was watching.
It is the first entry in a larger interconnected fiction universe to be developed and published under the pen name T.M. Lawrence.
started:
2018
status:
in progress
