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Puddle!
A message popped up from Emma’s phone with a sound that quickly caught her attention. She was about to finish cooking dinner when her mother messaged her, telling her that it would still take a while for her to come back home. She...
Familiar Encounter
FICTION — “Don’t be like Uncle Norm.” Those were my mother’s last words to me before I stepped foot inside the airport.
Bells of Balangiga
In the quiet town of Balangiga, where the sea wind drifts through palm and flame tree,three bells once hung in a belfry, brushed by salt and sun.They were not merely metal, but memory made solid,each toll a breath of devotion,each peal a summoning...
TWO POEMS ON FATHERHOOD
Shoes
Paper cutouts folded to fit
my back pocket. I carry them along
through bus ride and train tracks.
I’ll be gone for a few hours.
My daughters look forward to this
annual ritual. Now they need the stitch
and leather of a tougher kind. Last year’s
is now a hole...
Episodes
There are impulses that come at unforeseen moments long after loving and losing someone. However, these impulses carry deceptive circuits that lead us to believe that memory can finally take a backseat and we can now console ourselves with the needed composure we...
