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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All Over The World
ONE evening in August 1941, I came out of a late movie to a silent, cold night. I shivered a little as I stood for...
Footnote To The Youth
The sun was salmon and hazy in the west. Dodong thought to himself he would tell his father about Teang when he got home, after...
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...
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...
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...
Dark
A woman and her son sat by the window looking upon the darkening road. Every now and then the woman would turn to the boy...
How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife
My brother Leon was returning to Nagrebcan from far away Manila, bringing home his young bride who had been born and had grown up in...
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...
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...
