Escaping to a parallel universe
Have you ever wondered if the multiverse is real? Did you somehow think another universe might be existing…
Sacred showers
The year was 1996. I had asked my parents for a younger sister because I wanted someone to look after.
Adobo Sundays
The aroma of dried laurel leaves and ground black pepper always lured my senses to wake up from…
Exorcising ghosts
I have written about ghosts before-ghosts of past memories left behind by loved ones who have died. In 1999, I wrote about the death of my uncle who had schizophrenia during most of his adult life.
Let me tell you now
You used to tell me that the world is just at my fingertips. You used to tell me that nowadays, everything is reachable with just a click, a push, a touch.
Upside down
“Magkapatid pala kayo? ’Di halata!” (You two are brothers? I wouldn’t have guessed that!) His almond eyes are two…
Becoming flesh and blood
I was 18 years old when I learned the ghastly circumstances of my birth. Two weeks before I…
Lean, mean, fighting machine
June 2012 was the beginning of my last year in high school. I came home to an empty…
Seasonal orphan
My father never apologized to me. It was one morning in mid-September 2004 when I realized that it…