God Sees the Truth, But Waits
In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own. Aksionov was...
Literature
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The Creation Story (Tagalog Myth)
When the world first began there was no land, but only the sea and the sky, and between them was a kite (a bird something...
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The Story of the Creation – A Bilaan Myth (Mindanao)
In the very beginning there lived a being so large that he cannot be compared with any known thing. His name was Melu, and when...
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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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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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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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A Bird of Bagdad
Without doubt much of the spirit and genius of the Caliph Harun Al Rashid descended to the Margrave August Michael von Paulsen Quigg. Quigg’s restaurant...
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I Vialed The Universe
I vialed the universe And laughed at the concentrated Gods. But the Genie escaped with His halo of riddles. I pondered anew and unslept. Thoughts...
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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...
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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,...
