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Aiza

I saw it with my own eyes. The baby was sucking milk from her mother’s corpse. That extremely hot noon was terrifying and I can never forget that, the same reason why I will never vote for any descendant of the dictator this...

Mother

I notice it now that the house is oddly quiet. Pop songs no longer beam inside my daughter’s room, and the living room is enveloped by silence instead of my son’s familiar basketball dribbles. I notice it now that there is nothing else...

Reincatnation

You might have guessed it by now. Yes, I am a tomcat. I’m one of several varieties of strays. One of five kittens born near a drain pipe along CM Recto Avenue and Juan Luna. Only two of us survived the habagat, or monsoon...

The other side

Even from the corner of Mang Vicente's eye, the portal loomed over the main laboratory. He tried to focus on mopping up the spilled coffee on the floor before it spread to disturb any of the wiring that snaked about on the floor...

Tears of the shadow planet

Was it the embarrassing blunders she committed that made her unattractive to Tad? Was it her mysterious asthma attacks? What successful man would want a fiancee who'd, all of a sudden, flail her hands, fall, roll, and writhe on the street? Maybe his...

Magatos a badas

So magatos ba tu a badas na di nin den mabago so paniniwala ko kano ginawa ko. Nasambiyan so mga di kaaya-ayang galbekan ko, ganito ako den. Dahil kung aden bo gamut sa petalon ninyong sakit ay nawget ko den ginamot, ugayd na wala ....

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Reincatnation

You might have guessed it by now. Yes, I am a tomcat. I’m one of several varieties of strays. One of five kittens born near...

Caught in the Eye of Durarakit

The black piglet trotted along the edge of the backyard with his nose down sensing the soil following the scent of urine and chicken...

Babaylan in playland by the sea

“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...

The pipes

  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...