In this highly anticipated follow-up to 2012’s “A Bottle of Storm Clouds,” award-winning author Eliza Victoria returns with 17 stories of displacement, disillusionment, desperation, and loneliness. In “Seventeen Prayers to the Many-Eyed Mother,” characters seek solace – wittingly or unwittingly – in forces beyond human comprehension. A young woman agrees to make a blood sacrifice in exchange for an American visa. Strangers find themselves stuck in a fatal time loop in a convenience store. A plane crash survivor on a deserted island believes a deity’s name has been carved into the rocks. A broke tourist meets a being untouched by time and space. Diwata, in hopes of assimilation into human society, agree to have their wings surgically removed. And within the darkness of an old mansion, a figure in white appears by the doorway…