This poem was written as some sort
of a subversive tribute to love in the new millennium. It was published
in The Accounts (of U.P. in the Visayas, College of Management) Literary
Folio for the Year 2000.
Published in the 1999 Accounts Literary
Folio, this poem relates the world through the eyes of a fat girl--as she
sees thinner, prettier girls, learns more about her own body, and discovers
her sexuality.
Also published in the 1999 Accounts
Literary Folio, Jihad, which means "religious war" in the Islam context,
is the rebellious rant cum litany of a Catholic girl who has to sacrifice
such things as Sunday morning television and her fashion sense in order
to keep up with the requirements of her faith. No intent on blasphemy,
but this is not for those squeamish canon-law types.
This was published in the 1999 Accounts
literary folio. According to Dave, our literary editor, it was the
only story in there with a traditional, straight-up approach to its point.
No cross-form, no dream sequences, no lousy interludes at God-knows-where.
"Dancing in the Rain" is a love story between a perfect killer and a perfect
girl.
This is one of the many tales that
could be found in HIMALAY, a collection of short stories that I have written
on a magical Filipino place with that name. Uryana Sangkilat, the
heroine of "A Fire in the Soul,", is also the protagonist of many other
Himalay stories, but this particular tale chronicles one of her earliest
adventures as warrior and defender of her people.
This review of Banana Yoshimoto's short-story
collection "Lizard" was published in Estudyante Network Magazine, which
is circulated in the Panay Island of the Philippines. Who knows,
you might actually be encouraged to buy the book and LOVE it as much as
I do ^__^
A tribute to coffee, above anything
else. Written as a piece to compete for a spot on being one of the
70 delegates to the Ayala Young Leaders Congress 2000, "Coffee Break" was
a very unconventional essay to begin with. The interviewers even
asked what possessed me to write such an unusual piece. Of course,
my answer had been "Coffee." ^___^ I related my love for this delish
brew to the way I live my life.