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The Untermensch
Bernard was an Untermensch. He had the “power” to get into accidents. It first manifested when he was ten years old. A bully had taken his lunch. Bernard had been small, and the teachers didn’t care. He cried in the toilet and wished...
Beloved
My Beloved Selya,
Do you remember the last time we played takipsilim under the ancient acacia tree? I hated playing hide and seek. Takipsilim. The concept horrified me. I knew it should be played at dusk - that was the name of the game...
Uling
Sir Boyet mentally counted the sacks of uling stacked up on the porch of his nipa hut. 43 sacks. Last week, there were just 10. But they kept on coming.
Upong started it all. He pleaded that Sir Boyet buy the ten sacks of...
Dead Stars
In the writing of the first modern English language short story by a Filipino, a woman by the name of Paz Marquez-Benitez was first. “Dead Stars” by Marquez-Benitez came out in 1925 in the Philippines Herald, antedating the works of noted Filipino writers...
Soft-boiled Egg and Perfectly Steamed Rice
Makahiya can cure cancer. So emails an aunt. “I suggest boil an entire makahiya plant and have her drink it like tea.”
He weighs in his heart this suggestion and decides how he can go about procuring it. There’s a slight drizzle outside he’s...
El Santo Niño
The old woman walked slowly on the wide wooden plank, careful not to fall into the murky waters. The air around her smelled putrid, but the shanty row on the other side of the creek teemed with people, and children played giddily, running...
