When you’re a single parent barely keeping your head above water, you learn to measure life in very specific terms. Food on the table. Rent paid on time. Clean clothes…
Every morning before going to work in Quezon City, I would pass through the building lobby where the security guard stood on duty. I always greeted him. “Good morning, sir,”…
Berting had been gone from their village for five years. He was a soldier. Everyone expected that when he came home, he would have many stories of heroism, plenty of…
Ana was constantly bullied in high school because she was quiet and simple. Now, their batch was holding a Grand Reunion at an open-garden resort. The organizer, Clara—the most pretentious…
In 2018, Rogelio “Roger” Santos, a 34-year-old man from Nueva Ecija, dreamed of escaping poverty by raising pigs. He rented a vacant section of a mountain in the town of…
After my own daughter called me USELESS, I sold everything and disappeared. She thought she would inherit—but she never expected that I would vanish along with ALL THE MONEY…. My…
My name is Randy. During my twelve years at school, I experienced many moments that shaped the person I became. Some were joyful, but many were painful. The hardest part…