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Revelations + Destinations
Taking mine of you with me
I do not forget. It’s not that I have a capacious memory card installed in my brain, but I just…
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Hooks + Books
Human economics
In studying economics, we are taught about scarcity—our time, energy, and basically, all financial and non-financial resources are not infinite.…
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Hooks + Books
Awake to dream
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on December 6, 2007. At 5 years, I already knew what…
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Revelations + Destinations
Fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one
I once was certain of what lay ahead, even when it was still settled within the vast plane of the…
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Causes + Bosses
The rusted teaspoon
Is this how it goes? Growing up, the saying about being born with a silver spoon or a wooden ladle…
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Revelations + Destinations
Confessions of a killer
Murderer. I look in the mirror and I see myself. Whole. Yet broken. No skin torn, bruises tattooed, wounds etched.…
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Revelations + Destinations
To kill a dream
As we opened the balikbayan box from South Korea, my Tita handed me a textbook about the history of humankind.…
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Causes + Bosses
When my yearning commutes with me
My day usually opens with strangers invading my personal space. Some passengers’ elbows bump into mine as the wheel of…
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Hooks + Books
The length of a story
''How long should a story be?'' That was the question I asked NVM Gonzalez long ago in a private moment…
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