'The Hollowing'
"And whatever walked there, walked alone." ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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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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I studied literature in college, and part of my studies included analyzing the language used in the stories we tell. Not just the words, the rhythm and flow,…
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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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Quezon City, crowned a Creative City for Film, has always been the country’s cinematic heart.
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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…
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"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…
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The Philippines is one of the world’s largest sources of international migrants and laborers. A distinct term even exists for Filipinos who work abroad: the…
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“They should invent a way to save your mother.” “They should invent a mother who wants to be saved.”
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” —Anaïs Nin
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"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…
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'Smoke and Salvation' is a short story that won third place in the 2024 F. Sionil Jose Young Writers Awards in the English category.
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This poem won second place in the Jamborine event of Cultura, De La Salle University’s premiere literature organisation, and the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative…
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