Wattys 2019 Winner: Poetry Hawakan mo na ang iyong pluma at pasayawin mo ito sa blangkong papel, sa saliw ng ritmo ng mga salita. Dadanak muli ang tinta para likhain ang mga hinabing talinghaga, ito ang panimula.

COMPLETE Four Boys. Four Girls. Cliché but they have a different story to tell. Pyxis Dalton. Isang babaeng hindi namamansin at ayaw sa mga lalaki. Gael Gonzales. Adventurous at hindi mo mapipigilan. Venice Kim. Tahimik pero may tinatagong kakulitan. Jessie Hayashi. Masungit at tahimik lang. Michael Lopez. Makulit at madaldal pero sa mga kaibigan nya lang pinapakita yun. Ralph Nam. Snob at ayaw sa mga babae. Wes Frost. Ang campus saver. Nicho Abellano. Nakangiti lang lagi. Pagtatagpuin sila sa last year nila sa college. Magkakasundo ba sila o hindi magpapansinan? Well, this is their story...

I never cared for anything. But now, why couldn't I do the same? Why do I keep on holding this life together when everything I touch always breaks apart. Everyone who gets close gets shattered. Every-fucking-one left with a scar. Will this life continue on with every misfit it brings? Will I still choose to compromise? Will it be enough to make this life last?

I remembered those times that I have a hard time breathing. It'll remind me to not choke myself. I'll turn my sadness to a beautiful mess even if I'm the only one to see. My memories. ---------- A compilation of poems and random thoughts. (Filipino and English)

I never thought that this thoughts will get out of my mind. I'm done hiding myself. May these pages bleed with you.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in this world? TO LIVE IN IT. Life is full of struggles that no one can escape. How can we? That's the question that no one can answer, no one ever did. He got used in breaking rules, walking in a path that everybody forbids. He's a perfect definition of an asshole. Most likely similar for being worst. But everything happens for a reason, isn't it? You can't see his face if he don't remove his mask. No one knows, that behind his devilish smirk and evil irises, is a wrecked soul that no one seemed to repair. They said that the only one who can beat a devil is a devil as well. But is it? Or the opposite of it? Angel it is! So, are you?

Cordova. Zamora. Lavigne. Fonacier. St. Crox.

Mia Mills is an aspiring singer with a painful past. Jarren Reyes is a known song writer with a broken heart. When two lonely souls met, they start to create a broken melody.

[This story will become free again on AUGUST 30, 2021] After Natalie escapes death, she finds a silver feather, phone messages from an unknown sender and gets the ability to foresee death. All of which lead her to unlikely love. ***** When Natalie Lacierna wakes up after surviving a freezing death inside an ice factory, she has three curious things in her possession. A silver feather from somewhere and someone she no longer remembers; the ability to foretell deaths and see death gods roaming the Earth; and the memory of someone close to her with whom she used to talk frequently with on her phone. As she puts her life back together, she moves into a rental house owned by Lolo Dimos. At the house, she gets acquainted with Lolo's grandson, Henry, a college professor who looks very familiar but she cannot place. At first, living with Henry is trying - he speaks very little and intimidates her. However, over time, the two become close as they talk about angels, death, humanity, and God. Before long, Natalie falls for the professor. As they get closer, so too does Natalie get to figuring out the mystery of the silver feather and the phone calls from the unknown sender. What she finds is heartbreaking but comes with the glimmer of redemption. After Death is a sequel to the epistolary story, Hello, Death, and supplementary short story, A Walk With Death. DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A FILIPINO LANGUAGE STORY