Literary

I could never fold paper cranes right

I could never fold paper cranes right

you looked at every little paper square with the eyes of an imagining child. images ravaged inside your head, your hands fidgeted with excitement to transform those four perfect corners into a geometric animal I can't comprehend. you reached for them without hesitation and you created a crane, a hummingbird,…
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ABye: On Love and the Idea of Love

ABye: On Love and the Idea of Love

A FAILED wedding, particularly for a marriage years in the making, may feel like total defeat on one’s part. But through ABye, those who yearn are reminded that, perhaps, self-love is the most authentic appreciation that one can receive. For its 44th Junior’s Theater Literacy production, Artistang Artlets, the UST…
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Heart-Shaped Box

Heart-Shaped Box

THE HOUR-LONG ride to Bulacan was grueling. I stood the entire time, my knees aching, begging to crouch. Crushed between people as exhausted as I was, I couldn’t help but worry about the box inside my backpack. It was probably just as battered. Today had been my busiest yet—a seven-to-nine…
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Aphrodite’s cruel endowment

Aphrodite’s cruel endowment

I do not usually ask the heavens to grant me answers to prayers whispered in desperation, with eyes shut closed in quiet devotion. I have no need to pine for a life that is not mine. Yet, he came waltzing in as if the Fates gave Aphrodite a moment away…
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