How the World Was Made
This is the ancient Filipino account of the creation. Thousands of years ago there was no land nor sun nor moon nor stars, and the...
Literature
The Story Of The Unfinished Bridge
This story is a legend from the people of Southern Kalinga in the Philippines about the existence of an unfinished bridge in the place. At...
Return To The Primitive
A species of nationalism is being preached in the Philippines that ought to be scrutinized more closely for the dangerous fallacies it contains. The people...
The Children of the Limokon
This story is a myth from the Mandaya tribe of Mindanao, Philippines. In the very early days before there were any people on the earth,...
The Small Key
It was very warm. The sun, up above a sky that was blue and tremendous and beckoning to birds ever on the wing, shone bright...
Sa Aking Mga Kabata
Kapagka ang baya’y sadyang umiibig, Sa kanyang salitang kaloob ng langit Sanglang kalayaan nasa ring masapit Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid. Pagka’t ang salita’y isang...
A Blackjack Bargainer
The most disreputable thing in Yancey Goree’s law office was Goree himself, sprawled in his creakv old arm- chair. The rickety little office, built of...
The Necklace
The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family...
A Dialogue Among Clever People
ONCE some guests were gathered in a rich man’s home, and it happened that a serious conversation about life arose. They talked about persons absent...
Magnificience
There was nothing to fear, for the man was always so gentle, so kind. At night when the little girl and her brother were bathed...
