Term: philippines-feature
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Telltale
What eventually stayed was a detail you never got to name: what the eyes meant when they flashed like enemies, protecting lie after lie, or...
Wars, No Peace
With all that’s been happening in this country I will always call home, people like me who live overseas are less likely to want to...
War-Torn
“This is a very nice place,” said Aya, our Cambodian intern, one long breath after the big, red Rural bus dropped us off the highway...
Sugarlandia, In A Bubble
Five months into a mid-career gap year, I traveled to Bacolod, the capital city of Negros Occidental, Sugar Bowl of the Philippines. “Why not go...
Alpha
Something. Sight. Depth. Water quickly making sense. Plot. Coastlines. Animals emerging. Flight and fall. Ground and collision. Tone. Exposure and gradations. The relenting of dark....
Bleeding Heart
We all heard the shots, a faint crack at first, then growing louder and more insistent, like a parade with the drummer gone wild. I...
Monsoon Mansion, Election Day
I had almost forgotten that I was in some kind of war when I woke up on the first day of summer break to Norman...
The Unnamed and the Unspeakable
Of our country’s 7,461 islands, only 2,000 are inhabited and about 5,000 are yet to be named. But the population of the Philippines today, by...