Volume 3 Issue 4

2021 – 2022

ANG BAGO SA BAGONG NORMAL

Chuckberry J. Pascual at Ralph Semino Galan

Binuo ang isyung ito ng Tomás mula 2021 hanggang 2022. At sasandali ng pagsulat ng introduksiyong ito, umabot…

SINAING

Emmanuel T. Barrameda

Nasa dulo siya ng pila. Nagkakandahaba ang leeg. Binibilang sa
mata kung pang-ilan siya sa pila habang tinatantiya kung sa pang-ilang…

PALAYOK-PALAYUKAN PARA KAY CARLITO

Eugene Y. Evasco

Inggit na inggit si Carlito sa mga kapatid niyang babae. Isinasama
kasi sila sa pamamalengke. Katulong sila ng kanilang lola sa pagluluto…

BLUE WATERS

Joselito D. Delos Reyes

Natatandaan ba ninyo si Impen? Iyong agwador noong panahon ng
kopong-kopong na ang istorya ay pilit ipinabasa sa atin noong…

IMAHEN

Perry C. Mangilaya

Agad na lumabas ng bahay si Badong nang matanaw niya mula sa
nakabukas na bintana ang mga kabarangay niyang maligalig…

PAG-IBIG SA PANAHON NG KOLERA

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Salin ni John Jack G. Wigley

Hindi ito maiiwasan: ang amoy ng mapait na almendras na
nagpapaalala ng kapalaran ng bigong pag-ibig. Ramdam ni Dr. Juvenal…

THE FAVORITE

Cess Alessandra

Her room was no longer where she kept it last. She had eaten dust
in attempts to turn over every corner of her father’s…

MY OLD MAN

George Deoso

The man is a former soldier who now, at sixty-“ve, works as
someone’s bodyguard. His job requires him to…

BODY COUNT: 1

Rye Antonio

Adrian sank sullenly into his makeshift chair as he watched the city
fall asleep. the late afternoon sun cast a warm tinge over…

THE DUPLICATE PRESIDENT

Raymund Reyes

“Your son is not blu!ng this time, Madam Emilia,” General Torres,
the Chief of Sta” of the Armed Forces, told the elderly woman…

KORONA

KC Daniel Inventor

Ito na ang pinakamalinaw at nag-iisa kong alaala kasama si Jonnie*:
nagliliwanag na aparisyon ang imahen niyang nakatayo sa unahan…

ANG ALAALA NG APOY

Darwin Medallada

Tiniris ko ang upos na tinapon ng lalaki. Ganito ako palagi sa tuwing
nakakakita ng mga upos ng sigarilyo. Upos na mayroon pang apoy…

PAGLALAKAD SA PANAHON NG PANDEMYA

Mark Anthony S. Salvador

Nabagot ang mga tao sa Kamaynilaan sa mga unang buwan ng
lockdown, hindi sanay na makulong sa kipot ng sariling tahanan…

SI NANAY AT ANG MGA LIHIM NG HABAMBUHAY

Mayette M. Bayuga

Nakabuyangyang ang kaniyang dibdib. Kinukutikot ng aparatong
pinahiran ng gel. 2D Echo. Sumasayaw ang mga…

PERSONAL CHRONICLES: THE UST “PANDEMIC WORKSHOP” 2021

Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo

!ese notes started out as jottings in my notebook as we were
conducting the UST National Writers’ Workshop in 2021. !e sort of thing…

THE DISTANCE OF THE MOON

Jose Mojica

We transferred to this home about two and a half decades ago.
To !ll the plain white ceiling of the small room I shared with my brothers…

REMEMBERING MÁMANG

Alice M. Sun-Cua

I remember that blue dress very well—it was gauzy, with small
white roses scattered against a light blue background…

SPEEDY GONZALES, WHY DON’T YOU COME HOME?

Dawn Laurente Mar!l

“So anak, I have a girlfriend ha?” my father said as he carefully felt
between the “aps of the Balikbayan box, looking for the…

MGA PANGKARANIWAN

Mykel Andrada

Mariing atas ng araw
Sa buwan: dapat ipinid
Ang mata, ‘wag magpabalong
Ng liwanag, ‘wag magluwal…

PAGPAPAKILALA

Ma. Cecilia D. Dela Rosa

ang sakit ko’y
mga bagay-bagay
bahay eskinita tricycle
dyip MRT kalsada gusali
elevator sahig istrukturang…

LIMANG TULA

Emmanuel Quintos Velasco

Hindi iilang buhay
ang nagpatuloy sa kabuktutan
o sa kabutihan dahil sa iyo.
Hindi iilang pag-ibig
ang umusbong o umurong…

PRUSISYUNAL

Jose Martin V. Singh

Unti-unting tinanggal ang telang lila.
Sinabihan ng Obispo na pagmasdan…

ANGRY CHRIST AND OTHER POEMS

Vincen Gregory Yu

Look inside my mouth,
they say—walls
the color of dove’s plumage,
ripe flesh of mangosteen…

BETWEEN PRAYERS: A SEQUENCE OF POEMS

Jeff William Acosta

If I speak less in a language not lesser than a devotion
will the music turn slow?
Will the sound of gun”re…

EPILOGUE TO A NEVER ENDING STORY AND OTHER POEMS

Jonel Abellanosa

Between uncertainty and the future
letting me say, my navel’s cord
cut after I was born
holding water. In the dream…

WATCHFUL AND OTHER POEMS

Mark Angeles

Let me speak of my body. It is
female.
It is
the oldest symbol of art:…

ILANG TALA SA ISYU NG PAGSASALIN KAY/NI RIZAL

U Z. Eliserio

Sino mang magsisimulang basahin ang Noli’y magigitla sa
pinakaimportante nitong…

BAGOT AT BIGO: IBA’T IBANG MUKHA NG BAYANI SA TUNGKOL SA ASO

Kisha Aleena Abuda

Ayon kay Edward Linenthal, simbolo ng pinakamatataas
na mithiin ng kinabibilangang kultura ang mga bayaning-mandirigma…

GOING BEYOND THE WORDS: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY IN CIRILO F. BAUTISTA’S “RITUAL”

Jenny Ortuoste

Despite the ever-growing body of scholarship on the short stories of Cirilo
F. Bautista, particularly “Ritual,” arguably his most popular and widely…

PERFORMING QUEER CHRISTIANITY: WRITING GAYNESS, RETHINKING THE DIVINE

Ronald Baytan

!is paper underscores the paradoxes attending the formation of my avowed-
ly gay identity vis-à-vis my creative praxis and Christian background…

A POETICS OF CO-EXPERIENCES AND DIVERGENCES: TOPOPHILIAC AND TOPOPHOBIC ENCOUNTERS IN THE SELECTED POEMS OF SALOMON DE LA SELVA IN TROPICAL

Jan Raen Ledesma

This paper is an attempt to “flesh out the tropes of topophilia (affective
connection between people and their settings or places) and…

SAMPULONG GURAMOY

Merlie M. Alunan

In the first one hundred years of our very young Republic, the
Filipino youth were educated in English. “They learned how to read in…

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THE EDITORS

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