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The Great Little Hunter
Pinspired Philippines, 2022
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The Boy The Girl
The Rat The Rabbit
and the Last Magic Days
Chapbook, 2018
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Republic of Carnage:
Three Horror Stories
For the Way We Live Now
Chapbook, 2018
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Bamboo Girls:
Stories and Poems
From a Forgotten Life
Ateneo de Naga University Press, 2018
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Don't Tell Anyone:
Literary Smut
With Shakira Andrea Sison
Pride Press / Anvil Publishing, 2017
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Cupful of Anger,
Bottle Full of Smoke:
The Stories of
Jose V. Montebon Jr.
Silliman Writers Series, 2017
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First Sight of Snow
and Other Stories
Encounters Chapbook Series
Et Al Books, 2014
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Celebration: An Anthology to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop
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Silliman University, 2013
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Handulantaw: Celebrating 50 Years of Culture and the Arts in Silliman
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Inday Goes About Her Day
Locsin Books, 2012
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Beautiful Accidents: Stories
University of the Philippines Press, 2011
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Heartbreak & Magic: Stories of Fantasy and Horror
Anvil, 2011
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Old Movies and Other Stories
National Commission for Culture
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Nominated for Best Anthology
2004 National Book Awards
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IAN ROSALES CASOCOT
Sunday, August 16, 2009
3:44 PM |
A List of Things to Do in Turning 34
A working list of things to do for the coming birthday week...[✓] Own up your real age, and don't say this is the sixth anniversary of your 28th birthday.
[✓] Lose at least 40 pounds, and keep the habit.
[✓] Blow the candles, but don't eat the cake.
[✓] Be less bitchy.
[ ] See your dentist and your doctor.
[ ] Take mother out to lunch or dinner.
[ ] Buy a good pair of jeans.
[✓] Buy pizza for the yearbook staff.
[ ] Finish everything you promised to finish.
[✓] Pierce your right ear.
[ ] Finish that book you've been reading forever.
[ ] Submit a story each to
Graphic Magazine and
Asian Literary Review.
[ ] Send in that story collection --
finally -- to the publisher.
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[✓] Explore a side of you nobody expects at all -- which is, pose topless for a magazine. [That should keep them talking.)
[✓] Pray first thing Monday morning.
[ ] Learn to truly forgive those who hurt you. To quote Xander from last night, "Enough of the hate." (Thanks, Xands, for that bit of common wisdom we don't often take into our own lives.)
[✓] Tell the people you love that you love them.
[ ] Give up that one thing that has made you happy for
days on end -- because you know it will only lead to nothing, anyway. Life is too short to waste on "could be's" and "could have's." [
This will be very,
very hard.]
[ ] Dance away the next weekend.
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