In a Chinese restaurant, a mother and father tapped away on their smartphones, ignoring the three children in between them. If someone was writing a...

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Babaylan in playland by the sea

Philippines Graphic - March 20, 2019 0

“Rosebud… A girl’s name? You wouldn’t think that a man in his dying breath would mention someone’s name out of the blue after fifty...

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Northeastern novocaine

Philippines Graphic - March 10, 2019 0

The lake should have been calm, but when you catch yourself at the brink of meeting Death, when everything that you are begins to...

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Asymptotes

Philippines Graphic - February 25, 2019 0

I instantly felt the void when I laid my eyes on her. I know for myself that I knew her like the back of...

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Matches

Philippines Graphic - February 15, 2019 0

Madge used to make wishes on raindrops. Lev always said that you could see more raindrops on windows than stars in the night sky...

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Chrysalis

Philippines Graphic - February 12, 2019 0

Her: butterflies glimpses The butterflies came after the fortieth day. One after another, chasing in the wafts of air like hummingbirds, encircling me with play...

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Bag-ong Yanggaw

Philippines Graphic - February 2, 2019 0

Perhaps it was right to suppose that evil lurks everywhere. Likhâ’s own father believed this truism all of his young life. This, however, did not...

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The pipes

Philippines Graphic - January 25, 2019 0

They can’t kill us. No. I won’t let them. Ever. Since the day I came to this world, I opened my eyes and was greeted by...

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The girl in the river

Philippines Graphic - January 20, 2019 0

It had been a hard death, that much was clear. The Pasig River had spit the girl out at the end of a long storm....

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The yule tree

Philippines Graphic - January 13, 2019 0

From when she was a child, Marivic could see spirits. A hairy creature, half-man and half horse and smoking a cigar, occupied the balite tree...

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A child’s reality of Santa Claus

Philippines Graphic - January 6, 2019 0

TO GO KILL SANTA CLAUS—Jason was saying, and I was listening intently—one has to shoot him down with the T-square of the Mechanical Engineers....

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The Man with the Missing Leg

Philippines Graphic - December 28, 2018 0

The sky was bleeding its last light out onto the sky when I saw the man who lay face down on the pavement. A...

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