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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...

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I WRITE AND MAKE NO SOUND

Ants in My Grandfather’s Pants When I was six, my grandfather recounted a storyabout ants and bayonets that my father never told me.During the Japanese...

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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...

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Stella Loves Saluyot

Stella relished each spoonful.Adobong saluyot and rice.First taste of it in five years.First time to clear her plate all clean. Between smiles and dancing eyes,“Asim!...

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The Centurion

At six, Enzo Domingo bore witness to a miracle. That was the summer that Kuya Elison got sick. Enzo woke one night to find...

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A Flower for Freedom

What do you do with fallen flowers on the ground Dead brown leavesNo one ever dare look atShould I put them on the tombs...

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The Red Banca on Our Island

I No one can forget that red banca. If anyone were to ask how it looked, no one on our island would be mistaken in...

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Bohemian Rhapsody

“In the domain of music, birds have discovered everything.” —Olivier Messiaen who frequently used birdsong in his compositions. ~ Tweet from Berliner Philharmoniker there is no such...

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QUARAN10

It was on the fifth day that Cal saw her. Sunbathing in a red and white trim bikini on the building across the street,...

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Manananggal

Manananggal /ma·na·nang·gál/ n 1 a creature, usually female, who is human by day. At night, she separates into two at the waist, growing batlike wings...

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