Chrome Courtesan
Photo by Dorothy Lee For some reason, we’re seen as interchangeable with strippers—and even if that were true, it would hardly be as insulting as people seem to intend it. The pole is more...
Category: Literary
Napulo Ka Tuig Na Ang Nilabay – KURIS LitFest 2016
Photo by Wednesday Dawn Abelgas Makahinumdom ko kaniadtong gabhiona na wala ako’y laing makita kung dili ang kadagatan. Ang kahayag sa bulan nga ni-aninag sa kadagatan mao’y nagsilbing kahayag niadtong gabhiona. Tin-aw pa...
White Cards, Black Cards
Illustration by RK Tiu The man opened his eyes to the swirls of red and yellow painted on the dark blue sky. As the sun rose from the horizon, so did he from his...
Gan at the Smoggy Canyon
Illustration by Paolo Louis Manghihilot A plastix flooed past the pathroad as me two-wheels whizzered through the Smoggy Canyon. Rubbage burcinerated from the possmerdiem heat effected blacker smog than common nowday — causing the...
A Son’s Pledge
Photo by Angelo Nico Daroy Photo Manipulation by Zach Borromeo “Anak.” As the bombs fall and everything around me shakes in protest, I strain to hear my mother’s words. “Anak, I know this world...
Of Hypocrisy
Photo by Angelo Nico Daroy 2016 Today, I will vote for change. 2018 Fear instantly invades my being, and I start to tremble all over. I stare at my pot, at the earrings I...
A Daughter’s Gravity
Photo by Christine Suson All I saw were people dressed in black and white. From behind me, I heard the cries of friends and relatives that I’ve never met. I have always hated funerals....
A Letter to the Man I Used to Be
Illustrated by Shari Llamis Twenty years ago, when the rain did not come in massive droplets that carved deep holes in the earth beneath you, your name was written in the hopes that you...
When Mark Came Out Healthy
Illustrated by Eduard Jude Jamolin Today was a good day. I woke up at seven o’clock sharp, beating the alarm clock on my desk by 30 minutes and the one in my head...
