Fiction

  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...

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...

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...

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...

Mariana They say you never forget your first, and I guess that’s true, but it may just be that Mariana, by nature of being Mariana, was unforgettable. “I think it’s cute how curious you are about it all, Demi,” she laughed. “I just think it’s cool...

This is always the tricky part, when making soup- too much and it'll overpower the broth, too little and it won't work. Careful now, a little more... perfect. I've done this lots of times, but it never gets any easier, because it has...