I love that Philippines Free Press has already updated its website. New stories/poems every week!
Some recommendations:
“The Battle of Ayala” by Glenn Diaz
“Two Poems” by Allan Justo Pastrana
the divining that doesn’t reach the ear, as all hear,
from the gut, pure animal pain instead when the car
they’re in passes by—so what of the poor pig lying
near the gutter, writhing for being alive still, the throat
slit, from where too much blood gushed,
from what seems to be the only opening, like a window
alone that you lean to, pocket of air, the middle
you once dreamed about, that is as hollow as what a body
can be made of. That no one recalls the last word. That no-
body makes a sound—
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Another thing I love: that friends and fellow writers are telling me that they enjoyed “Summer Evening“, with Tin Lao saying it’s “sick, a la Inglorious Basterds/Pulp Fiction”.
Go read! /whore
Eliza Victoria 