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My grandfather is an insect

April 17, 2017 vernonvelasco 0

I killed my grandfather. It was a confession I made to my mom, who believes that a moth swinging by at the house is […]

One day at the MRT

February 8, 2017 vernonvelasco 0

I was on the MRT on rush hour, and this guy to my right accused me of touching his butt. This, after the back of […]

Cobie

February 8, 2017 vernonvelasco 0

So much like almost infanticipating, she would, as a matter of habit, crave for something, most often at such ungodly hours. And like fawning sycophant […]

Roses

January 18, 2017 vernonvelasco 0

If I were a girl, a bouquet of flowers would never be in my Valentine wishlist. I mean, seriously, what would I do with […]

Dad bod

July 19, 2016 vernonvelasco 0

One of the editors in the newspaper company I work in is rather someone I take as snobby, and as we always come […]

How ‘holdap’ made me pee my pants

July 19, 2016 vernonvelasco 0

The second time I was hold-upped, it was along a pocket of sidewalk on Buendia Avenue at high noon. Around this time the path is […]

The house of dentures

July 19, 2016 vernonvelasco 0

I sleep right next to a pile among many other piles of dentures in my father’s home laboratory, where he used to sit at work. The […]

Crybaby

July 18, 2016 vernonvelasco 0

A broken-hearted female friend called to invite me to merienda so that somebody could see her cry. So while I was breaking bread she went […]

Aging

July 18, 2016 vernonvelasco 0

I was a kid and I was deeply enamored by my grandpa’s wine cellar in their quaint little house. There he stashed age-old bottles of […]

The red string of fate

July 15, 2016 vernonvelasco 0

I have learned about the red string of fate since college, about two people fated to love each other no matter how far removed they are […]

Dear girlfriend

June 17, 2016 vernonvelasco 0

Dear girlfriend: You told me nobody can tell what the future might be or where this road we’re on leads to. No. I don’t want […]

Evil

June 14, 2016 vernonvelasco 0

When a Facebook “friend” updated her profile picture into something that obviously wants to start a movement: flowing dress, pompadour, a pose deliberately showing her […]

Catfights

June 13, 2016 vernonvelasco 0

Of my three siblings, my sister Nica is my favorite, not that she’s bunso and “only girl” but that she sort of became my outlet, […]

Haunted

June 9, 2016 vernonvelasco 0

There’s a ghost in our apartment, I would insist, even when my housemates so persistently shrug their shoulders hearing hard-hitting footsteps up and down the […]