X+Y+Z
Generational stories, those between parents and children, tech, nostalgia
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Escaping to a parallel universe
Have you ever wondered if the multiverse is real? Did you somehow think another universe might be existing and an…
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Sacred showers
The year was 1996. I had asked my parents for a younger sister because I wanted someone to look after.
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Adobo Sundays
The aroma of dried laurel leaves and ground black pepper always lured my senses to wake up from sleep. As…
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Exorcising ghosts
I have written about ghosts before-ghosts of past memories left behind by loved ones who have died. In 1999, I…
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Let me tell you now
You used to tell me that the world is just at my fingertips. You used to tell me that nowadays,…
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Upside down
“Magkapatid pala kayo? ’Di halata!” (You two are brothers? I wouldn’t have guessed that!) His almond eyes are two big, black…
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Becoming flesh and blood
I was 18 years old when I learned the ghastly circumstances of my birth. Two weeks before I was born,…
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Lean, mean, fighting machine
June 2012 was the beginning of my last year in high school. I came home to an empty house and…
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Seasonal orphan
My father never apologized to me. It was one morning in mid-September 2004 when I realized that it was the…
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