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Pangalan pa lang…

Or, The Country’s Most Unfortunately Named Elementary Schools Compiled by AISSA EREÑETA … Sino kaya sa kanila ang valedictorian? Tambak Primary School (Buldon, Maguindanao), Dinaig Elementary School (DOS, Maguindanao), Sablay Primary School (Siasi, Sulu), Sirit Elementary School (Abulug, Cagayan), Bagsak Primary School (Parang, Sulu), Bobo Elementary School (Kapatagan, Lanao del Sur) Bawal ang cheating pero [...]

Ambition, Noun

By REGINA BAUTISTA This comic was originally published in Cereal Saturdays. Regina Bautista recently abandoned a cozy corporate day job, churning out puns for an ad agency, to write and draw her life in comic book form. Rough drafts of ruminations on her daily existence can be found here. In case it hasn’t become dead [...]

Fall in Love

By MARLA CABANBAN

Preacher’s Failing

“My wish is that you manage to live the way you wish” Notes on ambition: 1) Find something worthy of love. 2) Become good at what I do. 3) Killer abs. What I realized about abs is that if I don’t have them now, at the tender age of 25, I will probably never have [...]

“Stop bleeding on my sheets.”

Why I Don’t Want You Back By FUCKFACE McFUCKINGTON DISCUSSED: Talking like civilized adults, The rules you’d have to live by, Knowing your place Okay, I didn’t say I didn’t want you back period, I said the door is open and it’s your call to get your other foot in, but you’d have to prove [...]

The Things You Said Back When

By IRENE SARMIENTO Table 1.11 Description: In case you don’t remember, these are the things you said back when you two were just getting to know each other, back when things were great, and right before they started coming apart at the seams. Then, when things got better, despite all the things you had said [...]

I Like How Infinity Equals Everything

Or: Fully Functioning Wings in an Infinite Universe By PAUL DOBLE Craigslist Personals Ad, Strictly Platonic Section I don’t want to meet you. – w4m – 34 (SFV)Date: 2010-11-06, 11:48PM PDT I’m just looking for an interesting, quasi-intelligent email correspondence with a guy who has a wry sense of humor, little to no ties to [...]

My Girls: Breast Friends, Bust buddies

by IRA V I will never forget that time when I was about 8 or 9 and I would feel throbbing similar to little pebbles poking out of my chest. I was in tears when my mother and I finally confronted my then medical-intern aunt about it. They had a bit of hush hush conversations [...]

Post Fiction or: No Push Ups

by PAUL DOBLE They say a man is not dead until everyone whose life he’s ever touched is still alive. I don’t know what they say about women, possibly something about cadaver make-up and being buried in Manolo Blahniks. They, air-quotes, say a lot of things about death. But I couldn’t find one that fit [...]

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