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The essay was written four days before the author succumbed to a massive stroke. This story, about his grandfather, is his last essay Before sunrise, he would do the rounds of his small sugarcane farm on the east side of his house. He would...

Ethel Booba, that funny girl, should not sell herself short the way I did. To clarify, I did not sell myself short—I sold her short. For no good reason, I might add, except that I mistook her for someone not to be taken seriously....

Veteran journalist Inday Espina-Varona was shortlisted for the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2018 Press Freedom Awards. Espina-Varona, former editor-in-chief of the Philippines Graphic magazine, was nominated for the international award’s independence category. She is among the nominees from 12 countries that have been shortlisted...

Creepy, ghostly, and notorious spots.” That is how the Life magazine described “the world’s most haunted places.” Life has come up with a book filled with blood-curdling photos and eerie stories about the world’s creepiest spots.  It was Charles Dickens who stimulated the editors, writers and photographers to...

It must have been a dark and stormy night when a classmate of ours from law school, identity undetermined and gender unknown, sat down and put the finishing touches on his thesis. (I use the possessive “his” because the story that follows must...

Intelligence-gathering, when conducted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, becomes less of an undercover op and more of wish-fulfillment in that it could really use some intelligence. After identifying 18 universities and colleges as alleged hotbeds of recruitment for the Communists, the...