There is a beauty to Death. It’s tight grasp on what’s left of life billowing in the bittersweet breath of death, awaiting its invite. A buried voice humming through the tiny cracks leading its merry way to one’s heart, with its haunting shift in tunes provoking a former longing. It has a way of reeling …
On August 4th, midday between traffic hours, Joan headed to see her doctor for her weekly checkup. Living in Rizal, a developing province in the Philippines, she’s far from all the glamorous city lights but no stranger to blasting beeps and heinous drivers on the road. Her car, an 8-year-old Sedan given to her from …
A month has passed and I’m still here. In an abyss with no railings nor a simple rope to hang on to. I see a thread and I hear voices saying, “Hang on”. I don’t know the origin of this thin thread and I’m completely lost as to where the voices may be coming from …
“May I have one Café Americano? Make that a large please.” As the barista encodes my order, she takes several glances at me from time to time. “Do I know you from somewhere?”, she finally asks me. I get a slight shiver as if a cold breeze lightly passed my neck. “You’ve probably taken my …
