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Eight Legs Is All

It’s unfair. With small bodies, they move in all directions. Once a leg gets broken—which usually happens when they resist to be caught—they have seven more to spare. No difference. They still move like they used to. Kuya Ping is one of the tikri...

THE LADY OF SITIO KARIKTAN

It wasn’t an urban myth at all and Frank couldn’t believe that he was the one to tell the truth to the whole world.  He had come a long way. Atty. Frank gave up his life of fancy cars, designer shoes and million-dollar lawsuits...

Senior Momentous

What was I, a retired university professor with a doctorate degree in education from a so-called prestigious university, doing with a much sought-after missing piece of evidence of a crime (as I soon would learn what it was), be on the run—sort of—because...

The King who Had Nothing

“What makes a man a king?” A young pauper asked as he sat on his father’s lap. They sat meekly on the side of an alleyway near the town square, under the shadow of a hill where a majestic castle stood. Amidst the...

Wakwak

STATEMENT OF RICARDO ATIENZA, M.D IN THE MATTER OF: Events surrounding the shooting, and breaking and entering at the residence of Dr. Armando Y. Acosta, M.D and Kristina N. Dela Cruz, M.D (his wife) on April 26, 2015. HELD ON: April 27, 2015,Police District Station 9, Quirino 2-A,...

Confession

I felt that I had arrived so I pulled over to the side of the road. I had played this moment over and over in my head for such a long time and I couldn’t believe I was now actually here. The old...

Random Pickings

People in the War

Our front door opened right into the sidewalk, and the street sloped down to a lily dappled river, in our house in the city....

Sometimes when shadows walk ahead

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...

Familiar Encounter

FICTION — “Don’t be like Uncle Norm.” Those were my mother’s last words to me before I stepped foot inside the airport.

This side of brightness

Barangay Captain Osorio finds himself caught on the horns of a dilemma.He has an angry mob outside, ready to tear the suspect to shreds,...