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The Mats

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For the Angeles family, Mr. Angeles’s homecoming from his periodic inspection trips was always an occasion for celebration. But this homecoming—from a trip to...
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Etymologies

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Jun was squatting over a burrow hollowed out by an old acacia’s jutting roots, wary of creepers that might crawl on him as he...
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Where the Sun Was

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The rains have been pouring for more than seven years now. The clouds have always been dark. I can only remember of how much I...
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Martika’s Kitchen

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  My parents have a rather unconventional setup. They may be living separate lives now, but during the past three years or so, Dad has been...
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Sometimes when shadows walk ahead

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We were in front of the Aristocrat’s Restaurant, where the malignant bone of Ermita and Malate in Manila breaks into two. Traffic was like...
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“Smartphone Arguments”

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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

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“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

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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

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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

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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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