Certainly a train love story
Note from the train operator
In a parallel universe, she would have jumped off Charon’s train and spilled her blood on the rail tracks of...
Mathilde’s Absence
She forgot where she’d put that goddamned lipstick. Rummaging through the drawer, cursing at everything, dewdrops of sweat forming on her brow, she was...
Burial in Marawi
Red dimpled flesh
where a tooth was pulled,
isn’t the pit like a grave--
hollow--
the body fills with itself,
sealing the lesion
and, along with it,
the pain of removal.
But...
Poems by Anne Carly Abad
Womb
I have this monster to thank
for letting me gestate it
over years of regarding myself
in the mirror,
alive long before I had my child—
claws for eyes
to...
Pawikan
Baliw daw ‘yon.
Sabi ng aking ama, sabi ng aking ina, sabi ng aking kuya, baliw daw talaga ‘yong mamang ‘yon. Ganoon din ang sabi...
Ang Sabing Ulan
Ni: Karl Isaac Santos
Hinipan ng malamig na hangin ang paligid.
Kinulabutan ang lawas ng parang.
Agad na nangitim ang langit,
Nabubulok na marahil ang mundo
Kaya nagbakasakali ang...
Paglalako sa Obando
Ni: Karl Isaac Santos
Isinasayaw ng ale ang kaniyang mga tindang isda
Na parang pista ni Santa Clara.
Ang mga tilapya sabanyera, anaki’y mga batang
Nagtatampisawsabatissatuktokngbirhengbundok.
Hindi niya alintana...
Sa Araw ng Libing
Ni: Karl Isaac Santos
Sa araw ng libing ng isang bayani,
Nag sabwatan ang paligid at pagkakataon.
Buháy ang langit saka bughawan
At ang mga ulap ay mga...
Dingding
Ni: Karl Isaac Santos
Ang dingding lang ang nakaaawat
Kay tatay kung siya ay galít.
Madalas na abutan ko siya
sa kuwarto, madilim
Ang mukha, himas-himas
Ang gasgas na kamao....
Cousin Ofelia
1.
I sat on a fallen tree at the edge of the village. The hot field stretched before me up to the horizon, and the...
Sons and Fathers
Are you ready for your morning stroll, Mr. T? In a minute, he bristled unable to get his arm into his heavy cardigan.
It’s...
Independence Day
William found it a great struggle to put on the necktie, not that he didn’t know how. He gazed at himself in the polished...
Two Poems by Ralph Semino Galán
Fairy Tale
I encountered her in a pop-up book
the first time, once upon a time as child.
I read how her widowed father married
a vain woman...
A Mythic Negotiation
Jael has to egress through a series of hard right and left turns in putrid and thieving-prone alleys, along several sari-sari stores, then over...
Kristo
By Prospero Pulma Jr.
It was rope for Luis and Mike as the two thieves and nails bigger than fingers for Juan. Juan watched Tomas,...
The Trilogy of a Dead Star
The Birth of a Star, How a Star Became a Black Hole, and The Graveyard of Heroes
By Hanna Norimatsu
The Birth of a Star
Verse:...
Every Disease Is A Story
By Dean Francis Alfar
Every disease is a story, every illness has a beginning, middle, and ending. Sometimes, we are there at the start, when...
The War After
A short story by Eddie Ilarde
Sandra Damon a veteran television reporter of an international news network based in New York looks out the window...
Time for Rest
By Kenneth Yu
Hi, Edson! Sorry for the late reply. I only just saw your message. I accept your challenge! Your request for a ghost...
In Joan Juliet Buck’s Memoir, a Parade of Stars and Styles
By Janet Maslin | New York Times News Service
The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
By Joan Juliet Buck
404 pages. Atria Books
Joan Juliet Buck, the...
