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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

entry arrow12:54 AM | Bed

To make the long story short, I had to break the old bed frame to get to the dead body. I figured it was time to let go anyway. How long have I had this bed? Twenty years? My father slept on this bed, and he died on it, too, and then it became mine. So then there was another dead body, this time beneath it, and to get to the cadaver I had to break the bed, in a manner of speaking. So now I have no bed, and I have to content myself with sleeping on a mattress on the floor, which feels very much like college, twenty years ago. I shrugged; I considered that reliving nostalgia. The bed was a huge frame made of hard wood and moved about on rollers with stem and socket; it was the kind that housed a smaller bed within, which one could slide in and out and provided extra space for a visitor to sleep in. (It had, to be sure, plenty of stories to tell about my decadent 20s.) The frame was heavy. It took a long, laborious time to take it out of my apartment, and place it outside, on the sidewalk, where I left it leaning on the lamppost just outside my door. By the time I finished, it was 2 AM. Then I slept. When I woke up at 7 AM, the bed was gone, like I knew it would be. Its disappearance felt like magic.

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Friday, July 10, 2015

entry arrow1:17 AM | Get a Copy of Rogue Magazine's 8th Anniversary Issue! I Have a Story There.



The July 2015 issue of Rogue Magazine is coming out this weekend, with a flash fiction piece I've written commissioned by them for the start of their Election 2016 coverage, "The Republic of 2022: Grace Poe, Mar Roxas, Jejomar Binay, and Rodrigo Duterte in a Dystopian Future." (Sounds ominous and interesting.)

Articles include "The Unraveling of Isabelle Daza," "The Promiscuous Lives of the Last Playboys: An Unauthorized Portfolio," "The Mystery of the Pink Panthers & the $20 Million Cannes Jewel Heist," "The Secret History of Social Climbing in the Philippines," "Kicking & Scheming: An Exclusive with FIFA's Embattled President Sepp Blatter," "How to Build a Billion-peso Election War Chest," "The Roumeliotes Affair of Imelda Marcos," plus Helmut Newton's Lost Polaroids, Harper Lee on her controversial To Kill a Mockingbird sequel, Go Set a Watchman, and more in the magazine's 8th Anniversary Issue, a special collector's edition. Actress Isabelle Daza, photographed by Mark Nicdao, is on the cover.

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Wednesday, July 08, 2015

entry arrow3:22 PM | Higher Education

Prof. Gloria Macabagting was very good at paraphrasing. Once her graduate class settled down, she’d tell everyone to gather near her around the small conference table, and to bring out their copies of their assigned reading for that session. Then she’d proceed to read every single line written in the photocopied handout, stopping every three sentences or so to paraphrase what she had read so far in the name of explication; and then paraphrase the same passage once more, but in a different way; and finally—to make sure everyone was on the same page as her in their quest for a deep, profound knowledge of their area of specialization—would paraphrase the same passage one last time, like so:

Henny Penny is a hen.

It is said that Henny Penny is a female chicken.

The fowl that is Henny Penny is the female variety of the chicken class.

End of discussion.

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