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How does one become significant? How does one transform through creation, connection, and the courage to exist fully⸺even when the world seems too vast, and…
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 4 min read
"And whatever walked there, walked alone." ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 1 min read
“But how do you speak to a granddaughter in her dead mother's stead? Can the responsibility to the dead ever be replaced by the responsibility to the living?”…
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 1 min read
"Almost" seems to be a recurring theme in my life. Never quite reaching. Always just barely.
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 1 min read
A poem inspired by "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie.
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 1 min read
How do you measure the life of a woman or a man? In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried. In bridges he burned, or the way that she died. ⸺ Rent
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 12 min read
As seen by cosmic stargazers looking down at Earth.
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 1 min read
Quezon City, crowned a Creative City for Film, has always been the country’s cinematic heart.
Rowel Barba · · 3 min read
Originally written in French and translated to English.
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 1 min read
Each tear sparkling gold,
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 1 min read
The passing of a significant moment does not yield to the limitations of time. It stretches infinitely. It stays, just long enough for the eye to savour it; to…
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 12 min read
"Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this…
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 5 min read
I sold everything I owned except for a few changes of clothes when I left Manila. Everything, including the two-story house, the seven-seater family car that…
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 15 min read
Evil, they say, is in the fist.
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 1 min read
“They should invent a way to save your mother.” “They should invent a mother who wants to be saved.”
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 14 min read
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” —Anaïs Nin
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 7 min read
"Of Dark Days Gone By: A Collection of Poems" is a suite of five poems that won third place in the poetry category for the 39th De La Salle University Annual…
Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial · · 6 min read
