Wet Footsteps “I also have a story,” my classmates from Bicol said. “A boy asked permission from her mother to play outside after his afternoon siesta . The mother agreed as long as he’ll come back before dusk, in time for dinner. So, he hurriedly went out to see his friends. “As...
The nurse After our class, we went to one of our classmate’s houses to celebrate. Still with a hangover from our professor’s story, we took turns in telling our own horror tales. One of my classmates from Surigao del Sur started. “There was this mother who is about to go to the...
Scary tales from the teens of the ‘90s During the 90’s, stories about creatures like aswang, mananangal, tikbalang, kapre, tiktik, tyanak scared us, especially for those of us who lived in the province. But since we’re doubtful these creatures really exist, because we haven’t seen one, we...
It started during that time you woke up in the middle of night. The usual buzzing street was in dead silence. As you try to lull yourself back to sleep, you suddenly hear scratches on the window, then a few bumps reverberate from across the room. And before the eerie feeling sinks in, you...
The Land Rover emblem may seem pretty straightforward. But, do you know what the stylized lines forming a "Z" after “Land” and before “Rover” are? They are hyphens. The hyphens were meant to indicate that it was just another kind of Rover, separate from the luxury line many buyers were...
Flash fiction from our long days and longer nights of quarantine Art by ARIANA MARALIT BOUNCE He’s always looking out through the gaps in the fence. He doesn’t understand why where he sees things he longs to see and hear up close, touch, smell, even taste, others only see danger. They call it...
