Young Underpaid Professionals

Cotton Candy Clouds and Orange-Flavored Skies

FICTION Posted by Mai It was a dream, but it didn't feel like a dream. She found herself walking a path that seemed like it stretched out to forever, but didn't feel like forever, yet it promised forever; the candy-clouds of the sky and the emerald blades of grass softening the edges of the gravel...

The Famous Writer (Part Three of Three)

FICTION by Rica Book signing. Queue. Bookworms with my work in hand. One smiling face approached me. "You always sign with a red marker." "It's my lucky charm." I wink. Besides, it's easier to refill with red "ink". "Oh, it dries out easily." I take a snapshot of him beaming; he smiles even wider. I...

The Famous Writer (Part Two of Three)

FICTION by Rica That's what you get for mocking me. He insulted me with a genuine smile at my book signing. But nobody's smiled after reading me, ever. Slit throat, gunshot, fall from an 8th floor balcony. Only deepest hatred appears in my work. But Nero smiled. Now I smile genuinely, ogling police...

The Famous Writer (Part One of Three)

FICTION posted by Rica She sits down, grabs pen and paper, reviews notes, pics about her plot. Nero. Wide smile. Lips sewn together with red marker. 23 New York, Cubao. Red gate. Noose? Hit-and-run. Hm. Asphyxiation. Yes. Gouged eyes. Perfect. She wipes the pen, starts writing another suspense novel...

Bother

FICTION posted by Rio I love you, said the SMS. My heart would have gone haywire right there and then, but I bit my lip and replied, "WTF. Wrong send, dude." "Ooooops! I'm sorry!" you quickly texted back. I had been writing when my phone beeped, and when I turned back to what I was doing, I suddenly...

Guniguni mo lang yun, ungas

FICTION posted by Rio Alam mo, naka mahigit sampung ulit na ata ako sa pagsusulat nito. Dun sa isang sulat, namutaktak ng salitang tanga. Dun naman sa isa, puro bwiset. Bakit nga ba kita naisipang sulatan? Naalala lang kita at naisip kong marami-rami na rin akong naipong mga sasabihin sa’yo. At...

Musical Frog Parts

FICTION posted by Karl I spent the better part of the day looking for musical frog parts. All I really needed to complete the last LeGrand high gynerator was a lyric spleen, but it never hurts to have an ample stock of extra highstrings and xylobones. Allen would have been proud of me had he been there...

SPLIT/SPILT

FICTION posted by Rica How does he do it? When I look him in the eyes, he glances right through me and walks past me, suddenly disappearing in the crowd. And when I chance upon him in the train heading home, he’s taking in all of me, and I see his lips curl at both ends upward, a sign of amusement...

sakit sa limot

Posted by Mabie over a century ago, rizal diagnosed the nation with the disease of cancer. entering into the first decade of the new millennium, i would have to beg to differ and give my own diagnosis, without, of course, precluding that i am in the same league as rizal. i say that it is not cancer...

Yuppie Dinner: Stir Fried Chicken In Oyster...

Posted by Nancy Stir frying is not as hard as you think. Buy the required ingredients, cut them up into small pieces, marinate the meat, stir fry it, remove it from the wok, stir fry the vegetables then combine together. That's how simple it is. I was tired of eating the same dishes over and over...

Manila International Book Fair 2009

Posted by Rica Calling all you alien children back to our mothership! Manila International Book Fair 2009 September 16 to 20, 2009 SMX Convention (You guys know this place, right? XD) You can TRY visiting the official site of MIBF (it's down as of this writing) http://www.manilabookfair.com/. I filched...

God of War

FICTION posted by Rio S. He put his katana back in its sheath. Surveying the remnants of the carnage around him, he wiped his brow and walked back to the battlemaster. He grinned, the last one had let out a scream as guts spilled on the grass. He has bounty to collect and what a bounty it was. The...