& is an online publication that collects the best work of the year written by both undergraduate and graduate students in the Creative Writing courses offered by the Department of English and Comparative Literature. 
Ensuring diversity in subject, substance, and style, it features the most imaginative work to come out of basic courses in creative writing (CW 10 and CW 100); workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, writing for children/young adults, and comic book writing; and special topics courses in creative writing (such as erotica and science fiction). 
 

 

Introduction

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

by SYDNEY PAIGE GUERRERO, Issue Editor 

 

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

 

E-anxieties 

by AUDREY LACUNA

 

Instructions on How to Turn into

Dinuguan 

by BEA L. SOLIMAN

 

A Not So Divine Intervention 

by MICAELA NOREL

 

Musings Since Milenyo 

by KENT DE LIMA

 

The Workshop that is the Town 

by JOSÉ MARTIN V. SINGH

 

 

POETRY

 

Etymology 

by JULIA JIMENEZ

 

In a dream, a stranger asked for my

name, to which I responded

by LEO COSMIANO BALTAR

 

Transit Line 2 

by JASMINE PANGANIBAN 

 

Hyperlapse 

by JACHA

 

rate of dissolution 

by ANTON CABALZA 

 

Parentheticals (Are)(Or) Gaping

Wounds 

by NISSIE ARCEGA

 

Aftermath 

by MIKA SORIA

 

Sari-sari 

by GEM CARMEL PANTE

 

FICTION

 

A Visit to Lola Hilda’s House 

by IMMANUEL CANICOSA 

 

Expecting Mothers 

by JABEZ MONSANTO

 

At Home with Crazy 

by KATRINA I. MARTIN

 

P.P.S., Thank you 

by FATIMA GRACE VINLUAN

 

The Biggest Bud in the Garden of

Spurs 

by DEAN I. 

 

Kiko’s Quest 

by ANDREA MAE CAMACHO 

 

 

PICTURE BOOKS

 

My Cat Disappears 

by IRA VALENZUELA 

 

The Egg Roll 

by ANIKA CASTAÑEDA

 

I Think You’re Pretty Too 

by BEA CLARIDADES

 

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