The House of Zapote Street
Dr. Leonardo Quitangon, a soft-spoken, mild-mannered, cool-tempered Caviteno, was still fancy-free at 35 when he returned to Manila, after six years abroad. Then, at the...
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God Said, “I Made a Man”
God said, “I made a man Out of clay – But so bright he, he spun Himself to brightest Day Till he was all shining...
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Indecision
He craves to sit beside the shady buttress Of some ancient tree, Or better still, on some abandoned beach, Or on a ferny hillside sloping...
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Like a Joke that Seems True
Pets and lightning may strike them in Manila But pray not here in the restaurant of Go Bani The filthy “pansit” still delights the tongues,...
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Our Lady’s Juggler
In the days of King Louis there lived a poor juggler by the name of Barnabas, a native of Compiègne, who wandered from city to...
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The Visitation of the Gods
The letter announcing the visitation (a yearly descent upon the school by the superintendent, the district supervisors and the division supervisors for “purposes of inspection...
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My Father Goes To Court
When I was four, I lived with my mother and brothers and sisters in a small town on the island of Luzon. Father’s farm had...
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The Chieftest Mourner
He was my uncle because he married my aunt (even if he had not come to her these past ten years), so when the papers...
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Origin: Bagobo Myth (Mindanao)
In the beginning there lived one man and one woman, Toglai and Toglibon. Their first children were a boy and a girl. When they were...
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The Waves
Matters of big moment at stake, and the struggle of a character in a painful effort to decide which course to follow—these make the essence...
