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Simbang Gabi and Other Stories, Day 4 – Suffer the Little Children
The idea for this story came to me during one pensive bus ride on the way to work. What if you had a serial bomber who chose victims who actually wanted to die? People who were suffering from some...
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Simbang Gabi and Other Stories: Day 5 – How Cromwell Jones Survived the End...
If the world IS coming to an end, I’m going down writing. Enjoy the very short doomsday story, my luvs. Day 5. We’re halfway done. DAY 5 How Cromwell Jones Survived the End of the World No one else...
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Simbang Gabi and Other Stories: Day 6 – The Ballad of the Unrelenting Knave
“A wish is just unbearable desire, sanitized.” Nothing like Sting’s Songs from the Labyrinth to inspire some romantic, turn-of-the-century poetry. I can’t believe we’re already on Day 6. Just 3 more...
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Simbang Gabi and Other Stories: Day 7 – Franny Makes a Promise
Over a decade ago, my best friend Franny found herself in the exact same position as I am now — on an incredible, unpredictable adventure in a country far from home. Before she left, we sent her off...
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Simbang Gabi and Other Stories: Day 8 – 12 Enquiring Letters to Santa From...
Just my luck to be struck by the worst case of writer’s block two days before our story novena ends. Wow. 2 days to go. Yay for us! I can’t thank you guys enough for your incredible support so far and...
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Simbang Gabi and Other Stories: Day 9 – Where the Story Ends
This is it. The last story in our little adventure. It took a little while because it is Christmas Eve Day over here, after all. Festivities come first. I want to thank you all so much for making this...
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What Happens In Vegas
Much like a whirlwind wedding in the City of Sin, my vacation to Vegas was completely unplanned and utterly spontaneous. I only knew the Wednesday before that the leave I had filed had been approved....
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Dear God, Are You There? It’s Me.
Dear God, I am saying a prayer now because, quite honestly, I don’t know what to do anymore. I can’t eat. I can’t sleep. I’m always sad and I’ve been very, very lonely. I feel completely empty inside....
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Sad, Sleepless But Steady On
It’s 4:35 in the morning and I’ve been up since 2. It’s one of those nights again when I can’t go back to sleep. And there’s no one online that I can talk to. So I’m just gonna write everything down....
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The Hesitant Immigrant and the Healthy Case of Rage
Those who really know me, know that I am patient to a fault. I will accept people and circumstances as they are, seeing the good in everything even when there is barely any good to be seen. I always...
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