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Rosa May M. Bayuga

Rosa May M. Bayuga writes for a living and for the love of writing. She has won the Palanca awards and the National Commission on the Arts and Culture Writer’s Prize for her fiction. She explores the “dark side,” whenever she can. She cares for cats and roses, talks to long dead and dying stars, and writes when her spirit compels her to do so.
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Ninay and the Spirits

The summer Ninay turned ten, her elder sister told her that she should learn to help around the house. Housework should be done the...
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THE EXILE

It was Christmas break. Susie and I had all the time to do whatever we wanted to do. The one thing we had long wished for, since her uncle told us the man’s story, was to see the bearded exile who lived in the house across our homes. The front of the exile’s house faced our front door. Its back side faced Susie’s huge window in their house along the bay.

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The Sanctuary

The church stood alone and abandoned at the edge of the town, an old structure built with weathered stone walls darkened by years of sun, rain, and neglect with tall wooden doors that creaked when pushed open. Its stained-glass windows cast colored light across the empty pews,...

Thank you

They came before the day began,before I was ready to be seen.Pink lilies, shyly unfoldingagainst the raindrops of morning.Too early,and yet, how touching,that someone remembered,and could not wait.A student once,her handwriting still a little unsure,has sent these blooms ahead of time,as if to say: I’m still thinking...

Satellite data show earthquake damaged areas, coastal uplift, and return of nighttime lights

Via GRAPHIC PLUS | Quezon City (16 June 2026) — The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) is currently analyzing available satellite data on the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the southern portion of Mindanao on June 8. PhilSA produced maps showing damaged structures in General Santos City, with areas in...

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