Category Archives: Prose

The sunken sun painted the sky with a lovely curtain of gold and orange hue above the western horizon. Clouds there were, but those which we mistook to be blocks of floating iceberg in the sky. They were glistening in silvery white, and still air did not mingle them to change their forms. Golden rays … Continue reading

A distinguished English Critic once replied to a boy asking her on how to have a good command of English, she wrote: Expose yourself to correctly spoken and written English as much as possible. Read books that interest you for an hour every day, or more, and talk English and write at least two hundred … Continue reading

You were first discharged in a canal of the dark region. You did not know what ferried you there. Like your thousand companions, your consciousness and awareness of the dangerous situation you were facing upon your first maneuver in that port of discharge seemed pushing you back to retreat. Yet, before you and your companions … Continue reading

The synchronizing song of the Crickets and Cicadas, and the softening touch of the humid air as we breathed the afternoon breeze reminded us of the near sunset. We were not in a hurry, but there was a complete quietness between us when we passed the rough and narrow trail down the forest. We were … Continue reading

We are Filipinos, and we are the luckiest people of the world. We are lucky not only because we are under the existing strong government which protect our liberty and individual interest giving each and every one of us the opportunity to live in the level of life depending on our inclination or choice and … Continue reading

[ad#468_60_banner_aligned_center] The night has just swallowed the last glow of the dying sun, Darkness slowly showed its pride in ruling over half of the earth. Then silent as the deep, dead ocean, the evening monstrous hours ran with accompanying wild and worldly music from under the grass and bushes. The frogs too, joined the crickets … Continue reading

[ad#468_60_banner_aligned_center] (One of my hair-breath escapes from death) One sunny afternoon of the year 1946, a year after the complete surrender of Japan to the Allied Forces, when I was only eight years old, an incident happened which even my youthful memory cope-up to remember. The war has just broke out, so our living condition … Continue reading

[ad#468_60_banner_aligned_center] He signaled for me to advance, the thing which I kept on waiting for the period of the seemed inexhaustible moment. I felt my knees weakened by the position wherein I held my body motionless for almost an hour. We were near to our target point, and I understand the faintest sound of a … Continue reading

[ad#468_60_banner_aligned_center] There is no other wonderful moment in our life so fascinating, no alluring, full of ecstacy and dreams, than the lifetime indulged in the blooming years of our life. It is in this stage we, male and female, have tasted the God-given wonderful gift which is love. Every human being had and should pass … Continue reading

There are moments when worries strikes a man which he doesn’t know what made him so.  He craves for something which he couldn’t even figure out in his mind the image of it.  He longs for something although he knew nothing have been taken away from him. He wants to free himself from the seizure … Continue reading