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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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 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...
