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On joggers’ lane

Returning to school after two years was not a walk in the park. I had to adjust to the environment,...

Ma. Salvacion B. Pantino |

Life with music in a pandemic

Sometimes I ponder over the future of music and the arts in this pandemic. It was a whole new world...

Lis Fortun |

Why I hate `colegiala’ party girls

I hate colegialas, those convent-bred denizens of high society who tend to overwhelm the brown-skinned majority with their Castillian features...

Midge K. Manlapig |

Chicken—my fish

Today, my fish stopped swimming. He just settled at the bottom of his tank like he was tired of moving....

Liel Tria |

More than writing

It was an 18-hour workday for me, and I don’t even have a job. I was up at 6 a.m....

Glenn Diaz |

Doubts and fears

Flashback to summer. I am 16. I'm at a fork in the road of my life, and I am terrified.

Regina M. Layug |

Unleashing the lion

Korean dramas were starting to be all the rage, capturing the hearts of juvenile viewers with every utterance of “saranghae”...

Angela Santos |

Planting patience

I was not born with a green thumb, to begin with. I was born with a touch that could kill a...

Eunice E. Dela Cruz |

Three ingredients

I am in my third year of college—only less than two years before graduating from university. However, there is this...

Joshua Corcuera |

Nostalgia

Since the start of the pandemic, I have developed this love-hate relationship with Facebook Memories. When the notification bell rings,...

Odeza Gayl Urmatam |
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Young Blood Omnibus Volume Two e-book

Young Blood Omnibus Volume Two e-book

After 2020's Young Blood Omnibus Volume One collected the first three out-of-print volumes in electronic form, Young Blood Omnibus Volume Two collects 2012's Young Blood 4, 2015's Young Blood 5 and 2017's Young Blood 6 digitally for the first time....