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Walking on Water 21 Jul 2012 | 12:28 am
By M. Protacio-De Guzman FICTION posted on July 21, 2012 UNDER MY HAND your skin turns to water and I drown. As my fingers try to navigate the turbulent surface of your desires, I am left with this ...
A Public Official’s Quiet Lamentation 21 Jul 2012 | 12:26 am
As I examine each sign, each historical slur, as I ruminate upon the ever-growing body of dizzying significations this political moment has now evoked and increasingly comes to awaken: - I, too, hav...
Dear Sir Dolphy 21 Jul 2012 | 12:16 am
That morning, on the front page of my hypertension: a heavyweight homophobic is the proud owner of an eighteen-million peso chopper, Forbes’ richest man in the Philippines is a Chinese mall tycoon...
Obscure Objects 23 Jun 2012 | 09:52 am
FICTION By Paul S. de Guzman Posted on June 23, 2012 IN THE SUMMER of 1998, when her husband didn’t have to take too many trips around Spain, they sometimes played small pranks on tourists. Toward e...
A child, simply 23 Jun 2012 | 09:50 am
From a balcony, leaning into the open space a child learns fear of heights. How this column of air unsuspecting holds a kind of hurt is a discovery. Something’s been nudged off ledge somethi...
Refuse 23 Jun 2012 | 09:48 am
My weekends are repeated scenarios of refusals. After a week of heady trysts with theories and texts In the university I get home from the dorm and find mother in the kitchen I buss her and she b...
My Way, Your Way, No Way 2 Jun 2012 | 11:07 pm
- Dear Mr. Paul Anka, Barely cleared off the sludge from Typhoon Ondoy, our streets and roads still rat-piss canals, and The New York Times is not wasting any time telling the world we Filipinos ...
Going Retro: The Victorious Army of Gobbledygooks Penetrates the City 2 Jun 2012 | 11:06 pm
“Why do they hate us? We’re setting them free!” _______________________A foot soldier - They were expecting sweaty hugs and kisses from dark-veiled women and their adoring children. - Ears coc...
Swell 2 Jun 2012 | 11:03 pm
- Ronny Esquivel was born with only one leg. And the toes on his one foot are also deformed. But the 13-year-old’s disabilities and poor background have not prevented him from embarking on a spor...
Excerpt from “Formerly Known as Bionic Boy” 26 May 2012 | 09:30 am
Fiction by Eric Gamalinda Posted on May 26, 2012 AT EXACTLY half past nine that evening, after a hot bath and a shave, he puts on a fresh shirt and clean jeans, makes his bed, dims the lights and pu...
