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Seven Excerpts toward a Theory of Musicology (For Elizabeth)
Our estrangement
It begins with a boat trip of course, as all things do, and where else but to Dumaguete, city in the south, year 1962, with elder sister and the old folks, who weren’t quite so old back then.
Overnight at the pier of...
The Ship
“He actually did all this?” Kyla whispered to herself as she searched through old papers hidden behind the boxes below her father’s side of her parents’ wardrobe. Written on these papers were blueprints of a theoretical spaceship engine that could help get ships...
The Root of All Evil
UNDER THE UNFORGIVING MID-MORNING SUN, the habal-habal revved with one throaty growl as it crawled its way through the insanely rough terrain, its tires gripping the earth with determination. The driver was a sunbaked old man in jeans, T-shirt and worn-out tsinelas with...
Somebody Else
“Please note the date meds are first taken, observe and report effects at next session.
They should do things where focus is not them but somebody else.
Angie read the lines again, then she smoothed out the wrinkles and re-folded the piece of paper that...
Everything Taken Together Has the Weight of Heaven
For Padmapani Perez
I have often imagined meeting Alicia again, the woman Angelico swore would love him for the rest of his life. As if that meant anything. It has been years—all that past coalescing in my head into a kind of gelatinous thought,...
The Scent of Coconuts
JANUARY 1, 1924, shortly after the stroke of midnight, was when Luzviminda Cruces was born into this earth in barrio Bunot in a town named Daraga, Albay. She was the last of 10 children. Because of some illnesses during pregnancy, her mother thought...
