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Where the Missing Things Go

“What the—?” Sky’s hand stalled inside the bag, fingers grazing the lining like it might bite.  The leather was a tired brown, the kind that...
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The Hunted Hunter: A Wild Boar-ing Turn of Events

Armed with a rifle and overflowing with a warrior’s confidence, my classmate's brother marched into the woods, excited about his unforgettable first solo hunt....
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On A Day Like This

There is an old Japanese film called Okuribito, which Marvin once told him about in a hospital room as if recommending a comedy. In...
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Philippines Graphic Reader

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...
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Literature

Trilogy for Easter

Read Nick Joaquin's long poem titled "Trilogy for Easter," published in the Philippines Graphic on April 17, 1995. TABLE OF CONTENTSARIMATHEA'S FRIDAY AFTERNOONCOMING IN FROM...
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Fiction

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...
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Fiction

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,...
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Fiction

The Man with Horns

Close to the end of my ties with Catharine, I was inconveniently reminded of the time when I learned that I grew up with...
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Fiction

These Invisible Forces

There was pain, lots of it. And it seared. It felt like fire, or like being eaten alive. Vincent screamed, using that one scrap...
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Fiction

Someone Else Will Help

Is the goodness of a man determined by the purity of his intentions or by the deeds he brings into the world? And what,...
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