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The Quiet Animal

I couldn’t get off my mind, that morning when I was six years old, when my mother asked me to bury a dead animal....
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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...
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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.
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Song

          As I lay alone in bed —                    thinking of nothing...
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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...
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Luxent Hotel welcomes NJLA 2025

With its sleek, contemporary glass façade, the classic and elegant Luxent Hotel along Timog Avenue in Quezon City is this year’s venue for the...
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He who Is without Sin

Three huge cross figures made of fine wood were slowly being painted black by a crowd of men. They sat on makeshift bamboo benches...
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At the Seine

Were the ripples at the river Seine My memories, your face will be broken  Into a thousand pieces, each fragment of you Cut into countless shimmers Dancing in...
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When the Heart Knows

Charito's pace slowed as she neared Barbara's, the renowned restaurant in Intramuros that is next to the centuries-old San Agustin Church. The cobblestone streets...
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Started in 1927, the Philippines Graphic is the longest-running printed magazine of national circulation that provides relevant news and features and promotes Philippine literature.

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