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Original Short Stories

WILL I EVER SEE BAMBAN AGAIN? - We decided to slip through and proceed to Bataan, then swim to Corregidor Island where the combined Filipino-American forces were gathering for a last stand. Romy, Anung and I were now on foot. Gone were our horses which we had to slaughter for food in Bataan. We were the tattered but unwavering remnants of the Twenty-sixth Cavalry, the well-disciplined men of the Philippine Scouts. More>>

BOBBY- I was in high school then. I decided I did not like dogs when I got bit by a multiparous momma that hot sticky afternoon in Zamboanga when I walked by a neighbor's house on my way to school. It was almost one o'clock as I hurried and forgot my umbrella. I could have used it to fend away that nasty dog. More>>

I'LL SEE YOU AT CHRISTMASTIDE - All day that Christmas, Trini waited for her sweetheart. Now, it was evening. The hour was getting too late. Would he come? He always kept his word. How she loved him... this dashing general! Because of his military daring and natural charisma, the President promoted him to the highest rank of his twenty-fourth birthday. Could she ever forget that momentous evening? More>>

PURPLE HAZE IN SEBASTIAN'S EYES - This story began like all others except that it ended the way it should not. Letters that became words were like the anarchist raindrops that fell whenever and wherever they wanted. Some hit the concrete pavements of the garden and went divided. Others fell on the blades of the dying thistles but slid down to be drunk by the oven-baked earth. Others still fell on me. I begged them to stay but then, they were not really meant for me, I guessed so. More>>

THE COMING OF THE GREEN DOLPHIN - She was at it again. He always thought that she has always been a nagger since their early life as married couples. Now at their fifth year, not much has changed except for the growing rift between them. A day won’t pass without her throwing insults or complains about almost anything – his pet dog who barked all throughout the night, a busted lamp in the garden, the lawnmower that won’t work, or the dirty socks he threw in the middle of the living room. More>>

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