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The Floating Library (The Inheritance)
The humidity in Manila wrapped around Lia De Castro like a damp shawl as she stepped out of the National Library, a worn satchel slung over one shoulder. She had barely reached the sidewalk when her phone buzzed. A notification from a law...
Mori Dress
People always say that she is beautiful, that she exudes an ethereal radiance only she is privy to. It’s…this strange, brilliant glow that has cast shadow upon shadow of exclusion in our childhood, because one rarely gets to share the spotlight before it...
The Father’s Daughter
It was the day I turned eighteen the day when I learned that silence could scream a thousand truths. The afternoon gleam at five o’ clock was golden when I arrived home. It made even the most mundane things shimmer and the air...
Coming Home
Buried in dishwater, Erika scrubbed hard on the cast-iron skillet that earlier contained beef caldereta. The grease showed no signs of letting go, and she wondered how impervious to dishwashing liquid the next dinnerware would be: the microwavable pans. But she didn’t mind....
Under the Withered Roof
The tears I dropped on my mother’s casket were wiped off with an off-white handkerchief by a hand filled with bulging veins and dominating wrinkles. I heard a comforting scolding, hinting to me that this man is too long in the tooth to...
Rise in Love
A ping sounded on my phone, and the words blinked on the screen at six in the morning.
“RISE IN LOVE.”
I squinted at the screen, half-amused. The message could only be from Kim—always dramatic, always turning a simple morning greeting into something that promised...
