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Vinci the Puppy Squeals His Last

2012-01-29T05:47:00.002+08:00

[Part 2 of the "Sketches of Kitsch" series] ESTEBAN HAD NO CHOICE but to take the detour where the road block led the traffic, forcing him to fill the gasoline tank of the passenger jeep at another...

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Star Margarine

2012-01-28T01:53:00.001+08:00

[Part 1 of the "Sketches of Kitsch" series] DAVID SWEAT PROFUSELY after downing a small bowl of hot fish soup, his forehead glistening, reflecting a bit of light of the high noon in that perennially...

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To Be Alive and Powerless

2012-01-08T07:01:00.005+08:00

[Last part of the "Flights" series] WHEN ENRICO TAN opened his eyes and first felt the surge of pain rioting through the veins in his temples, Abel was already gone. Enrico immediately tried to move...

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Empty

2012-01-07T11:25:00.002+08:00

[Part 4 of the "Flights" series] AFTER ALMOST AN HOUR of heavy traffic, rain began to ease through the dust and smoke rising from below the skyline, cleansing the concrete arteries of the city with...

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Closer to Life

2012-01-02T21:24:00.005+08:00

[Part 3 of the "Flights" series] BY THE TIME his tears have dried, Abel's footsteps have gone slower, as though his feet were lifting half of his heart while dragging the other half along the mossy...

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Scars

2011-12-28T02:48:00.007+08:00

[Part 2 of the "Flights" series] OF THE TWENTY meters of the concrete lane baking under the flames of the summer solstice, there was nothing more than a few minutes of silence interspersed...

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2011-12-18T21:37:00.011+08:00

[Part 1 of the "Flights" series] SITTING ALONE by a table for two, Abel moistened his lips, his tongue gently wetting his dry mouth and the little cracks that line the edges of that tender but thin...

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2011-11-17T00:01:00.004+08:00

[Last part of the "Daemons" series] THE CURTAIN was raised and there she was at the platform, petrified in genuflection as though her flesh suffered its own weight, an Atlas condemned to shoulder...

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The Crucible of the Idols

2011-10-31T04:10:00.006+08:00

[Part 4 of the "Daemons" series] TWO BEDEWED FLOWERS blossomed from the rubble, their delicate but bright yellow petals bobbing against a backdrop of dust and grey. The surviving wall staggered at...

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Visions Sans Sketches

2011-10-27T14:47:00.009+08:00

[Part 3 of the "Daemons" series] “THIS ONE IS the Infant Jesus,” Clara said as she held the sketch in front of her and Father Pio, her hand stretched high enough as though she levied her pride with...

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The Virgin at the Gallery

2011-10-24T16:19:00.006+08:00

[Part 2 of the "Daemons" series] AS YOUNG AS ELEVEN, Clara already had this vague idea that there was something spectacular about the marriage between religion and art. She thought that, once...

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One Invisible Cross Less

2011-10-23T03:23:00.007+08:00

[Part 1 of the "Daemons" series] FATHER PIO cleared his throat with half a bottle of water. He leaned forward and looked hard at Clara, his bony fists clenched against the glass cover of his desk....

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Wherever the Wind Blows

2011-10-06T02:31:00.006+08:00

[Part 2 of 2 of the "Deuce Diaspora" series] SUDDENLY, THE WIND from the southwest blew stronger. Twenty paces from where I stood, little Paulo held the kite with his frail hands and tossed it in...

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The Other Side

2011-10-03T14:38:00.004+08:00

[Part 1 of 2 of the "Deuce Diaspora" series] IMAGINE A FIELD of flowers, the cosmic splendor of the afternoon summer sun washing them with all the light they need. With the celestial glow piercing...

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I and I and I

2011-09-16T00:01:00.005+08:00

[Last part of "The Messiahs" series] IT IS TRUE: there is no freedom behind walls of concrete and curtains of iron. The taste of liberty can never be had in that melting pot of sin and crime, only...

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A Slice of Flesh, a Taste of Joy

2011-08-28T17:33:00.007+08:00

[Part 4 of "The Messiahs" series] “...” “I’ll rephrase the question. How was he before you went to work?” “We don’t usually talk before I go to work. Come to think of it, we don’t talk at all....

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James Messiah

2011-08-24T17:31:00.010+08:00

[Part 3 of "The Messiahs" series] WE SPAT OUR PHLEGM from the open windows of the smoking area. There on the twentieth floor, we watched it spiral downwards until it became a faint dot as far down...

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Where the Mound Is

2011-08-12T21:30:00.014+08:00

[Part 2 of "The Messiahs" series] At three in the morning, I was still awake. For a whole day, I dug a deep pit in our backyard. I was tired. Outside, the garden light flickered throughout the...

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Happiness is Forever

2011-08-08T02:37:00.007+08:00

[Part 1 of "The Messiahs" series] Lovely people gather aplenty in places where the sun rarely shines. These creatures are easy to identify in a city of strangers in broad daylight. Behind their dark...

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Three Thousand Days and Nights of You

2011-07-25T14:49:00.000+08:00

This is a world where the scent of spring flowers in her midst, flowing freely from her fingertips and fusing itself with the air that nourishes my lungs. Here is where I breathe her, satiating my...

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The Prayer

2011-07-11T01:01:00.001+08:00

He wields in his hands the curse of famine. Flesh and spirit dangle on the edge of a precipice where, miles beneath, despair breeds a feral species of hunger and thirst. Bodies more emaciated than...

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Ruminations of A School Peon

2011-06-26T19:17:00.012+08:00

Where I come from, it is a crime to smile. The force of law accompanies every swing of the sovereign’s flabby arms against the table. Standing as I tow my words from the short distance between my...

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How to Chase Her and Fail

2011-06-11T15:32:00.003+08:00

[Last part of "The Manual" series] Unlike the grand lottery, you are predictable. Every move you make, with or without liquor, is certain to teeter between tragedy and comedy. The closest to...

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How to Survive in a Lonely Room

2011-05-19T13:19:00.009+08:00

[Part 4 of "The Manual" series] Stare at the open window. Except for the nimbus crawling at a lazy pace, the view it offers is the same as yesterday—rusty iron sheets, corrugated walls and the...

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How to Date a Slab of Granite

2011-05-09T06:01:00.004+08:00

[Part 3 of "The Manual" series] Smile but do not speak a word. Let your teeth do the talking. To leave her question hanging is to inspire every possible answer to brew in her mind. After twenty...

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