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Everyday I Write the Book
Music for Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic By HANNA KRISHNA N. CALLORA Roald Dahl is one of my favorite writers. Growing up, I always thought he was my other father. I was never the kid who played outside after school, running around after other kids and climbing trees and getting dirty. I read a lot and [...]
Lips
By MICHI ANCHETA DISCUSSED: Awkward First Dates, Friendships There is a story, etched clearly into my mind on how this article should start. It begins with an email that increased exponentially over time while a friendship that seemed to exist only in words, escaped the confines of thought and turned into something tangible and much, [...]
Love In the Time of Facebook
By TARA CABULLO DISCUSSED: A Romantic Comedy Reference, Dating Angst, Love “IRL” I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these [...]
Then and Now
By JATON ZULUETA DISCUSSED: Childhood Friendships, Growing Apart, On How to Be a Man The last time we talked was at your wedding. You got married at 21, and I was your best man at 20. Even on your wedding day, I couldn’t understand why you wanted to get married. Your girlfriend wasn’t pregnant, you [...]
Here’s Your Coffee Motherfucker!
By SOPHIA FISH To Whom It May Concern (you know who you are, you soulless bastard): Please, please, please accept this letter as resignation of my position as fashion assistant, effective as soon as motherfucking possible. I am offering you two weeks’ notice that will hopefully, by some way of miracle, be enough time for [...]
Re: TOXIC Manong Guard @ Employee’s Entrance
By MARGUERITE ALCAZAREN DE LEON DISCUSSED: Unnecessary Security Measures, Not-Actually-Very-Questionable Clothing Choices, Life Compromises Sent: 7/20/2010 8:19 AM To: ALL Re: TOXIC Manong Guard @ Employee’s Entrance ___________________________________________________________________________ Dear All – Today marks the 365th day since I began employment as copywriter for this institution’s Corporate Communications Department. I confess that this is quite a [...]
What Do You Do With “What Do You Do?”?
By MELANIE LEE DISCUSSED: The Existential Angst that Comes About From Trying To Tell People What You Do The worst party I’ve ever been to happened just after I graduated from university. I found myself sitting in a circle of mostly strangers and we had to go round introducing ourselves and talking about “what we [...]
She’s Gotten Used to This Version of You
If he listened, he’d know that she is more scared than she is angry. But he never does, he never lets her finish a sentence without a fight, and she doesn’t care enough to explain herself anymore. So they wrestle all the time about things past and future (the worst fights are about things that [...]
Definition
By CARMELA GUANZON LAPEÑA DISCUSSED: Odd friendships, Labels, translating all this fuzziness into something concrete When I ask you what are we the question relates to position: absolute, not relative; And location, precise and not an estimation. The last thing I want to hear is a vague catch all with an accompanying sweep of your [...]
I Will Write About the Possibility of Us Everywhere
Instead of a futuristic, bleep-bloop-y selection of songs, here’s a mix that’s tangentially related to the idea of possibilities, which is tangentially related to the idea of The Future. It began with The National’s “Slow Show,” mostly because of this fantastic line: You know I’ve dreamt about you, for 29 years, before I met you. [...]
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