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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...

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,...

A Triangle of Triangles

She's a great little housewifeThough sometimes she talks like a foolBut she helps at the store in the holiday rushAnd she picks up the...

Love by Algorithm

“Good morning, Doc.” “Have a seat Mr. Peñaflor. I am Dr. Anton Abalos, but you can call me Ant or Doc Ant, whichever makes you...

Chicken Adobo

I watch my Mama pour a sachet of Milointo three cups, adding a lot of brown sugar to it—stirring them slowly, as though she...

The Visitor at Dusk

The night still outshone the day when Ms. Angeles, a public school teacher at Sagisag Elementary School, woke up in her bed. The crow...

CTRL+ALT+ESC

The children of the town had once belonged to the streets. Their laughter rattled off the cracked sidewalks, their games stretched across alleys and...

Vic Pura

An author is confronted by the protagonist of her 32nd fiction. She had written a story about the incident, more or less an undisguised one,...

Nesting

I used to bite my tongue a lot. I hated facing things head on. My emotions feel like they have all risen to the...

Kronos Eats All His Children in the End

What do you fear for yourself in the future? Haya stared at the question written on the paper. For some reason, her college has a dedicated...