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Dilang Anghel by Mariel Annarose Nicole L. Alonzo

Bloodletting Sleeptalker, I wake on bleeding leaves. Banig bitten beneath me, I must’ve said a bad word. My mother anointing her disappointment. I say my sorry, closed my...
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Hiroshima’s Legacy of Peace (Part 1) by ­Jose Antonio Custodio

  I.  The Bombing On the early morning of August 6, 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Force...
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Welcome to the exciting world of skydiving!

Blue skies! That’s the greeting folk at the newly opened drop zone in the province of Pangasinan will be hearing from skydivers and first time...
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ACROSS 1. Judge's bench 5. Warning device 10. Phil. tribal chief 14. Ruler 15. Mindanao region 16. Greek city-state 17. Not one 18. Creative writing 20 Fortune 22. Quake 23. Hills 24. Selves 25. World 28. Blaring 32. Cognizant 33....
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World Intellectual Property Day 2018: spotlight on piracy in web-streaming

Tempting as the “free” video web-streams that are a guilty pleasure for many may be, you’re not getting these things for free. Someone else...
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PCSO enforces ‘transparency’ to curb corruption

Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Alexander Balutan sees to it that the agency is transparent in all its sales and accomplishments to...
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Pag-IBIG Fund offers share of non-wage benefits for workers on Labor Day

Committee on non-wage benefits meeting (April 19)  Pag-IBIG Fund Senior Vice President for Business Development Sector Fermin A. Sta. Teresa, Jr. (left) discussing Pag-IBIG...
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MORES induction of new officers

Marketing and Opinion Research Society of the Philippines Inc. (MORES), the premiere professional organization of research and opinion polling agencies as well as market...
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Joyce Pring narrates first local audio book; Pierra Calasanz-Labrador releases second poetry collection

Dear Universe . . . Can You Hear Us? Anvil Publishing’s Spark Books announces the release of Pierra Calasanz-Labrador’s poetry collection entitled Dear Universe: Poems on...
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Call for entries for 68th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Palanca Awards)

The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awardsfor Literature, the longest-running and most prestigious literary contest in the country now on its 68th year, is now accepting...
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GUERILLA DOWNPOUR

There is no warning— the sky, a sudden insurgent, opens with                     guerrilla downpour. Torrential rain, an unrelenting witness, assaults the fragile spines of trees and the quiet bones of houses. Water spills, not as mercy, but as a force that shatters the brittle calm we cling to. In the heart's small orchard, the fruit sags                beneath shadowed weight, and...

Salt Prayer

"There must be something strangely sacred about salt.It is in our tears and in the sea."from SAND AND FOAM (1926) by Khalil Gibran Matthew 5:13— "You are the salt of the earth. But ifthe salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made saltyagain? It is no longer...

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BY THIS TIME next year, Teresita could be elsewhere, unmindful of the biting cold. She could see herself walking along a cobblestone path strewn with scattered leaves from maple trees that lined the streets. It would be October, and the foliage would be nothing short of magnificent....

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