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I. Newspaper biker carries back home Oneself, a person Who has fully unloaded the toil; The burning heat of the morning sun Leaves no hand Of sweat on oneself, or at the heels some dirt of soil: Aluminum Can Foil. II. Carbon will Take Every Thing in life as hard as the iron grill Of a post-war, historic Jeepney: Still Organic In chemistry. III. It will bore on Any state Of what we wear and wash; It has an issue on How to biodegrade, But look at what it does: Boron As perborate Will surely bleach – just watch. IV.…
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Chapter 1 In the Town of Pantalan “Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing…” – Sigmund Freud * This is a story about the human heart, but this is not a love story. The human heart is not all about love. Deep within this throbbing cocoon of muscle, mold, and mass lies the secret which holds the darkest mystery of who we truly are and why we are who we are. If you like to know how the story goes, then close your eyes, child, and start listening to your own heart. * In a time…
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Part 1 The spotted wolf groomed across the verdancy of the land in complete and utter communion with its own sense of wild freedom. Young Yno’s knees were beginning to knot themselves again, as the dunggolin guide hoarsely whispered something to his right cup-shaped ear, “Take your time…” Click. The old man of the mountains started swearing against the ground he was standing on with the legendary genitalia of his anito. The creature had eluded Yno for the very first time. And the old man, for the nth. Click. The two intruders of the lupine lair heard the thing jam…
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AudioCast: Short Story by Manuel Ortega Abis The Fightingest Creature in the Philippines Today “There are only three breeds of creatures alive and roaming the Philippines today – the con artist, the conned, and the confounded.” Give another man your hand and he’ll take it home along with your arm. Have the heart to make him tenant and right away he’ll own your land. The world, this is the “wa-is” way of – dog eats dog eats dog eats dog. Fortunately, the story of George Q is not a bit different at all and more classic rather than classy. We…
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AudioCast: Short Story by Manuel Ortega Abis Nature At first, her family thought I was the wind who came to take her away from them. Especially when I accidentally slammed the door on her father’s face and almost broke the poor nose of the old man. Her two big brothers stared through me as if they were trying to measure my own capacity to bring down their old bungalow with my bare knuckles. They were wrong, of course. I was not the wind. Even though they made me feel like one. Even though, at that moment, how I wished I…
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