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		<title>Stories in 150 words or less: convos, status messages, and random thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, let me start this scalding Thursday post with an early morning convo; one of those typical exchanges I have with Rica once in a while: Rio: parang may kilala akong ganyan kadense Rio: hahaha Rica: ULUPONG Rio: hindi ikaw UNGAS Rica: ah buti Rica: akala ko ako na naman Rica: not everything is about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories in 150 words or less: random thoughts and convos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Rica Montenegro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has become a habit for me and Rio to jot down random thoughts that show either how cool our thought processes can be or just how lame we really are underneath our well-guarded facades (Usually, it’s the latter.). The Overlord has permitted joined us in this week’s compilation of random thoughts and weird conversations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories in 150 words or less: random thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts are pretty much like falling stars; they occur almost always randomly, they are there then they aren&#8217;t, and most people think there is some measure of wonder in them. The fleetingness of random thoughts is where its magic holds, I think, and for that reason Rica and I have resolved to record some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>noose</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i never really knew her. she was just one of my many faceless classmates. all of our conversations were limited to heys and nods, except for that one time when i stayed in school to work on something for design class long after everybody else went home. she was a member of the volleyball varsity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cotton Candy Clouds and Orange-Flavored Skies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FICTION Posted by Mai It was a dream, but it didn&#8217;t feel like a dream. She found herself walking a path that seemed like it stretched out to forever, but didn&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Famous Writer (Part Three of Three)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Rica Montenegro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FICTION by Rica Book signing. Queue. Bookworms with my work in hand. One smiling face approached me. &#8220;You always sign with a red marker.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s my lucky charm.&#8221; I wink. Besides, it&#8217;s easier to refill with red &#8220;ink&#8221;. &#8220;Oh, it dries out easily.&#8221; I take a snapshot of him beaming; he smiles even wider. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Famous Writer (Part Two of Three)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Rica Montenegro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FICTION by Rica That&#8217;s what you get for mocking me. He insulted me with a genuine smile at my book signing. But nobody&#8217;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 in and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Famous Writer (Part One of Three)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Rica Montenegro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 as she throws away a blood-stained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bother</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, &#8220;WTF. Wrong send, dude.&#8221; &#8220;Ooooops! I&#8217;m sorry!&#8221; you quickly texted back. I had been writing when my phone beeped, and when I turned back to what I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guniguni mo lang yun, ungas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rio Siochi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 dahil hinding-hindi mo &#8216;to [...]]]></description>
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