Filipino Stories
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Silakbo by letters_by_sai
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In 1959, Janine Pluma Vergel and Nicolas Liham Acuzar were two student journalists under University of the Philippines' school publication Silakbo. Before their final academic year, they discovered an injustice that sparked them to use the publication as the voice of the oppressed, resulting in the hunger of society for answers, resulting in the government to grasp on their power, laying the root for the Manila Uprising. Pluma and Liham took leadership among students in joining the protests. As they sought for justice, human rights began to wither, democracy slowly crumbled under the weight of a rising dictatorship. And when they believed they could finally bring their voices closer to the deafened walls of the government, they met their unjust demise, buried in silence. No one learned about the truth of their patriotism. For sixty-six years. But then two AB History students from the same university in 2025, Dani Imogen Villaluna and Jace Nicholai Consuelo, were paired to uncover a buried past in the country's history. At first it was just a final academic task, until Imogen began receiving old, almost timeworn letters. Letters sent by Liham. Letters addressed to Pluma. And so began the digging of a buried history out from its chained grave. "Sa harapan ng oblation statue, doon binaril 'yung magkasintahang biktima sa Manila Uprising. Hindi pa sila nakakakuha ng hustisya. Hindi ko alam kung kailan nila makakamit ang hustisya."
Sonless Mother of the Revolution by CarollaStaAna
CarollaStaAna
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[COMPLETE!!!] She went by many names: La Loba Negra, Bayani, Mabaya... ...but long has she abandoned the title of Mother. Amelia was a maid and bodyguard for her long-time companion Paloma. They both run away from their hometown to fight in the Philippine Revolution, letting Amelia abandon her adopted son. She understood that leaving was for the best, believing that he'd be safe. Years later, at the peak of the battle, she finds him in a war he's not supposed to fight in. ~*~ Sonless Mother of the Revolution is a novelette, set in the final years of the Spanish Rule in the Philippines. A story of a family that loved and lost, again and again.