StoryMask.com

Once upon a time, in the small rural town of Orosi, in the sunny (and overtaxed) state of California, there lived a man named Ben Marroquin. Ever since he was a little, he had a very vivid imagination and had no trouble seeing pictures of what he was reading in his head; like a small movie projector making the words of books come alive. He also enjoyed (well mostly) strange wondrous, and sometimes dark, dreams that he was lucky enough to remember good size chunks of.

And as he aged over the years and attended college, he would sometimes write stories born of dreams and imaginings.

Then came a span of 10 years in which his writing stopped; a time, in which cruel incurable genetic illnesses struck him, sucking the joy from his life and spiraling him into darkness. Eventually he was able to adapt to his new life, though the darkness still attacks from time to time, and decided to begin writing again. But having moved many times over the years he lost many of the stories and poems he had written. (Something he regrets to this very day.)

So one day, while visiting a blog, he decided that he should do the same for his stories, and thus StoryMask was born; a place to share his imaginings, an archive of his storytelling, and a safe to hold his stories.

So welcome to this Storytellers site where he (being I) hopes you’ll enjoy some stories.