Literary

Dec

Monday Morning

ROUSED BY a tremor accompanied by a deafening ringing, right below where her head lay rest which disrupted her slumber like raindrops causing ripples on a steady lake, she awakened to the droning of a fan. Almost mechanically if not for its lack of precision, her hand reached underneath her…

Dec

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Plastic Horse

“WHAT DO you want to do when you grow up?” His hands shook ever so slightly, but he kept a firm hold on his son as he helped the boy climb the biggest plastic horse in the carousel. The ride has slowly begun, moving in soft circles that made his…

DISMISSAL: Of Justice and Love’s Complexities

Dec

By Krizia Maica Magbitang

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DISMISSAL: Of Justice and Love’s Complexities

By KRIZIA MAICA G. MAGBITANG A CLASSROOM has always been a place that embodies a learning environment. It is where students come to study and where teachers come to impart knowledge and teach values. Teatro Tomasino’s twinbill production, Dismissal, alters this view and a classroom is no longer shown as a…

Dec

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Point: Of Breaking and Of the Pen

THE FINGERS of the five-year-old me circled around the straps of my backpack so tightly that my knuckles had visibly gone white. My mother spoke gently but firmly. She said education is essential. Going to school would make me a better person; there I would learn, and when I asked…

Dec

By Krizia Maica Magbitang

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Paki: Starting Anew Despite Old Age

AN UNPLEASANT fact in the Filipino society is how common it is for men to commit adultery and how women turn a blind eye. One particular article even remarked at the increasing infidelity rates of married Filipino males and the justification of their act by saying it supplements a man’s…

Unravelling Ghosts’ Forgotten Battles in Haunted: A Last Visit to the Red House

Dec

By Corheinne Joyce Colendres

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Unravelling Ghosts’ Forgotten Battles in Haunted: A Last Visit to the Red House

THE ILUSORIO family owned a beautiful two-story mansion that was surrounded by large gardens filled with tropical plants and flowers. The mansion stood out like a ruby gem in a sea of greenery. However, upon the Japanese occupation, the Red House turned into a sight of terror and trauma. The…

Dec

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Antebellum

IT IS the calm before the storm. The cold howl of December has arrived and it bellows the last few days of the semester. For every student, it hails icy anxiety and pressurizes them to complete every task there is until the finish line. To some, it constricts the hearts…

Historiographika Errata: Ridiculous Memoirs of Absurdism

Nov

By Zymon Arvindale Dykee

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Historiographika Errata: Ridiculous Memoirs of Absurdism

By ZYMON ARVINDALE R. DYKEE IT IS the end of the nineteenth century. In the Philippines, a revolution is brewing. Andres Bonifacio and his fellow Katipuneros are plotting to overthrow the Spaniards. Jose Rizal, in his stay in Berlin, is polishing his first novel. War is waged against the colonizers,…

Nov

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Photons Scramble

CHILDREN WERE interesting to watch, he concluded as he occupied a bench by the entrance of the amusement park, waiting. There was something about the way they hugged their parents’ arms and pointed at whatever caught their interest that tugged his lips upwards. So willful, a single-mindedness which by itself…

Throwback Today: In Memory of a Timeless Virtue

Nov

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Throwback Today: In Memory of a Timeless Virtue

By MARIA ANTOINETTE A. MALICSE THE PRESENT moment is actually comprised of different—though perhaps not equally—sorts of variables that determine it, some of which each individual are ultimately responsible for, while others beyond his/her control. In the Cinema One Originals entry “Throwback Today,” director Joseph Teoxon makes use of time…