This is the blog of Ian Rosales Casocot. Filipino writer. Sometime academic. Former backpacker. Twink bait. Hamster lover.
The Boy The Girl
The Rat The Rabbit
and the Last Magic Days
Chapbook, 2018
Republic of Carnage:
Three Horror Stories
For the Way We Live Now
Chapbook, 2018
Bamboo Girls:
Stories and Poems
From a Forgotten Life
Ateneo de Naga University Press, 2018
Don't Tell Anyone:
Literary Smut
With Shakira Andrea Sison
Pride Press / Anvil Publishing, 2017
Cupful of Anger,
Bottle Full of Smoke:
The Stories of
Jose V. Montebon Jr.
Silliman Writers Series, 2017
First Sight of Snow
and Other Stories
Encounters Chapbook Series
Et Al Books, 2014
Celebration: An Anthology to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop
Sands and Coral, 2011-2013
Silliman University, 2013
Handulantaw: Celebrating 50 Years of Culture and the Arts in Silliman
Tao Foundation and Silliman University Cultural Affairs Committee, 2013
Inday Goes About Her Day
Locsin Books, 2012
Beautiful Accidents: Stories
University of the Philippines Press, 2011
Heartbreak & Magic: Stories of Fantasy and Horror
Anvil, 2011
Old Movies and Other Stories
National Commission for Culture
and the Arts, 2006
FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures
Sands and Coral, 2003
Nominated for Best Anthology
2004 National Book Awards
<1> I am, at heart, a deeply conservative person... who just happen to hate the sight and airs of another deeply conservative person -- especially if they do not get the joke. Being conservative should not mean you allow your mind to shrink and stop asking "Why?," or even more deliciously, "Why Not?" <2> I want a son. Through "natural means." Ehem. I will call him Sebastian. <3> Sometimes I think being alone is underrated. I value my personal space so much it hurts. <4> There is so much stupidity in the world. It's a wonder I still love it. <5> When I was a kid, I dreamed briefly of being a kept man. <6> Sometimes, when I write and finish something, I get this strange feeling that someday, somebody's going to discover I'm a fraud... that I can't write to save my life. <7> Two recurring dreams bother me most. (A) One is where I walked in the light of a full moon down a dark road. There's a boulder round the bend in this road. And I know something is there, behind it, waiting for me. Then I wake up.... (B) Another is where I have somehow missed a whole class in high school (sometimes it's Pratical Arts, and sometimes it's Filipino), and yet nobody knows about it, and I still manage to graduate, but with the fear that somebody's going to find out and make me go back for another year. It's a variation of another dream about not being able to finish some homework. <8> I wish I have dreams of being naked in the city instead. <9> I can't stand the idea of casual sex. I hate fellatio. <10> I have a phobia of landline telephones ringing. <11> I am not a Formalist/New Critic. <12> I think Danny Zialcita's and Joey Gosiengfiao's films are the Bomb. <13> When I was a Physical Therapy student, I handed in a midterm exam answered in ini, maine, maine, moe. <14> I once had *****.