This is the blog of Ian Rosales Casocot. Filipino writer. Sometime academic. Former backpacker. Twink bait. Hamster lover.
Email: icasocot(at)gmail.com
The Great Little Hunter
Pinspired Philippines, 2022
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 *****.