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"Because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." ― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
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A touching Christmas story about Noel, an orphan who finds unexpected kindness, a small mouse-shaped bread, and a quiet wish for a mother.
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A December story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl,” following a young ice seller seeking escape, comfort, and freedom.
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A reflective poem exploring memory, melancholy, and the cycle of longing as each December arrives and fades.
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The Diamond Jubilee celebration honoured generations of Filipino writers, judges, and visionaries who have shaped the country’s literary heritage.
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“Parapraxis” explores the struggle between creating light and confronting the darkness within, weaving imagery of art, prose, and self-reflection.
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This creative nonfiction essay was a requirement for my Editing Class as a Literature student at De La Salle University. Contains sensitive themes. Reader…
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A poem saying goodbye, reflecting on memory, loss, and the desire to be remembered for how one touches another's life.
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A reflective essay on how the roles of Mother and Father shapes one's identity and understanding of love.
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Isang koleksyon ng limang tula na tumatalakay sa pananampalataya, kaligtasan, at pagsumpa.
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A reflection on how single-story narratives flatten characters, and how retellings like Wicked reveal the complex, colourful world hidden beneath Oz.
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A contemplative literary narrative about an encounter at a bus stop, exploring age, memory, loss, and the quiet connections shared between strangers.
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"And whatever walked there, walked alone." ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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“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?”…
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"Almost" seems to be a recurring theme in my life. Never quite reaching. Always just barely.
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A poem inspired by "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie.
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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
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A moving story of grief, devotion, and the haunting endurance of love, These Scars Water Our Love, Still follows a man who meets his estranged wife years after…
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