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This is the blog of Ian Rosales Casocot. Filipino writer. Sometime academic. Former backpacker. Twink bait. Hamster lover.
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Bibliography

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
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IAN ROSALES CASOCOT
Monday, February 23, 2004
This is it..
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It's 9 o'clock in the morning. I have not had a
single wink of sleep.
Later.... (7:53 p.m.)But although I'm exhausted and sleepy, this has been a perfectly wonderful day. I cried -- in that refreshingly beautiful way bottled-up emotions come up and let loose as tears --
twice: I missed my family, and then I missed my friends. And that was how I knew this life was rich -- because I miss people who mean so much to me, and this confirms me: I cannot say my life is empty then. Later I had my TV finally fixed. It had been tinted green and red in all the wrong places for the past year, but finally I had time today to have it fixed (courtesy of my brother Edwin) -- within the day! and cheaply, too!
I'd better log off now before I get overly melodramatic.
And oh, yeah....
Philippine Daily Inquirer just inquired if I wanted to be an official correspondent for them. I said,
of course! It's weird. When I graduated from college,
PDI was one of the first media companies I applied to, but without any result. (I ended up editing a crummy community paper.)
Now they text me -- and just like that, I'm a
PDI correspondent.
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