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The sorrows of Rowena
Those mah-jong nights. They had a lot of it during those times – Rowena, and her friends in the Village. Rowena enjoyed the games. Maybe because she needed the company of her dear neighbour-friends. Maybe she really enjoyed the games. She was born...
Eighteen months
Eighteen months ago, you sat outside the church's steps, dressed in your wedding gown. You were crying, jilted at the altar.
I ran to you, put my arms around you and let you weep. I felt your pain. I cursed the man who hurt...
A happy ending
First, you think of summer, not the sweet one with the sun slanting towards the curtains in graceful breathlessness and fullness as if someone had breathed air into the wombs of the fabric. Instead, you think of the scorching one in which, on...
The living and the dead
By Rouina Figueroa
“Monkeys aren’t supposed to be tied up like that. Just imagine if it were you, dangling around that post all day! They should be left in the wild!” Abner exclaimed as he stared at the small, shrieking monkey chained to a...
The Woman in The Woods
by Paul Cyrian Baltazar
I saw her in the woods earlier. I hid, speaking to her from behind a tree. My voice had already changed by then. She did not recognize me; thank God. Poor thing. So innocent. So dumb.
Now, as I stand in...
Little star
by Cesar Miguel G. Escaño
This is the story of our Mother Sun who sings to the planet Earth and whose light keeps us alive. When the sun was young, you knew her as Twinkle. When she became our star, we know her as...
