Literary

Kusina: Where the Heart Rests
28
Aug
By The Flame Literary
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Kusina: Where the Heart Rests

IN TRADITION, Filipinos believe that there is life after death—an afterlife in which an individual’s identity and consciousness continue to exist even after the passing of a body. Kusina defamiliarizes Heaven as the holy realm that reveals all that is expected it would be like: a room where there is…
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Tuos: Breaking the Shackles of Tradition
25
Aug
By The Flame Literary
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Tuos: Breaking the Shackles of Tradition

MILES AWAY from the country’s capital region, where daily living includes mobile phones and honking of cars, lay various pre-Hispanic traditions that still survive up to this day despite the speeding influence of modernity. Cinemalaya 2016 Audience Choice Feature Film Tuos presents the clash between tradition and modernity by the use…
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Photo of the Week (08/21/2016)
21
Aug
By The Flame Literary
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Photo of the Week (08/21/2016)

NASISILAW KA ng sinag ng araw na sumisilip sa mga bintana ng iyong kwarto, at naririnig mo ang mga ingay sa bahay na nagpapahiwatig ng bagong umaga, ngunit hindi ka tunay na gising. Ito ang oras kung kailan ka didilat at tatayo galing sa iyong kama. Aayusin mo ang iyong…
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Photo of the Week (08/14/2016)
14
Aug
By The Flame Literary
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Photo of the Week (08/14/2016)

Ang kamay kong hawak ni mama ay nangangati nang magpumiglas. Nagsasawa na ako sa sagot niyang “hindi pwede" habang pinipilit ko siyang payagan akong sumakay sa ride. Gusto kong malaman kung anong tumatakbo sa isip ng isang taong nag-aasam na maabot ang langit kahit alam niyang anumang oras, siya ri’y…
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Photo of the Week (07/31/2016)
31
Jul
By The Flame Literary
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Photo of the Week (07/31/2016)

Cosmologists theorize that there is an infinite number of universes. Across one side of an argentine pavilion lies a park filled with lush fields of grass alongside a concrete pavement and trees embellished with scintillating lights. At night, couples chat and sit down either on a cleaved trunk of a…
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Island Hopping
24
Jul
By The Flame Literary
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Island Hopping

Three specks of mossy green behind her, she wonders, both legs dangling off the edge of the running motorboat, What would happen if islands could have memories like humans do? Would the first island remember the way its seaweeds twice her arm length tickled her cheeks and ears as she…
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Photo of the Week (07/24/2016)
24
Jul
By The Flame Literary
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Photo of the Week (07/24/2016)

Island Hopping Three specks of mossy green behind her, she wonders, both legs dangling off the edge of the running motorboat, What would happen if islands could have memories like humans do? Would the first island remember the way its seaweeds twice her arm length tickled her cheeks and ears…
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