Orbit
Living inside your head can sometimes feel like being in outer space. I have never been in space, but I...
Smoke break
The last memory I had of last Holy Week was being drunk alone in the surprisingly empty streets of Blumentritt....
2020’s return
To time travel is impossible and far-fetched. Not until I started hearing these sounds, which transported my consciousness back in...
The bloom of one
I’ve always believed that life comes in stages. For the longest time, I thought I was running behind. By 29,...
Lonely together
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on February 21, 2006. I knew she would eventually pop the...
Having a ‘third place’
I have never felt such insurmountable loneliness in my early adulthood until recently. I regularly work from home, unlike all...
The sound of loneliness
I often wonder if the loneliness that sits in the pit of my stomach is meant to be perpetual. I’m...
Fleeting friendships, lasting solitude
I often worry about the prospect of being alone—not the fleeting, temporary sense of the word, but rather, its more...
The anatomy of loneliness
Recently, on a Facebook group, someone posted asking what the loneliest moment in our life was and I got to...