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
So this is what you call, compassionate conservatism. You continue to impose sanctions on Cuba just to piss off Fidel Castro, who's probably going to outlive another Bush presidency, and further squeeze the already impoverished regular Cubans, whose relatives in Florida you have to please to protect your electoral votes in November. Then, you bomb some independent state in the Mideast to show some "examples" of your experiment and justify it as part of the war against terror. Then you smoke out Saddam, whom your dad and the military complex created in the first place. Then you cut and cut and cut and cut taxes even when you are in the red and even if 44 million of your people don't have health insurance. Failing to find your WMD or Osama bin Laden, you drop a bomb by announcing that you support a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage virtually discriminating millions of your own people denying them equal protection of the law. Then you raise one hundred seventy million dollars from special interest groups to bankroll your re-election and roll over your opponent labeling him as unpatriotic even as he served in Vietnam while you were soaking up the sun in Alabama. Very nice.