Storytelling By Jing Villamil DO you still read, or share from your own stocked knowledge, a bedtime story to your child to prepare him or her to sleep? Sadly, in a research made by technology developer TomTom last February, covering 1000 parents with children ages 3 to 10 as subjects, only a third of the […]
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Commatose (A comma overdose) By Jing Villamil DENGUE, leptospirosis, polio, diphtheria, meningococcemia, measles, pneumonia, malaria, tuberculosis, rabies, HIV, the big C for-all-ages, dialysis for too many failed kidneys, too-sweet diabetics, bones young and old weakened, cracked or crushed, Road accidents along SLEX, NLEX, and other EXes and widened roads, doctors and medicines too expensive or […]
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Stalked! (Conclusion) By Jing Villamil HER message must have gotten across to him who had watched, watched-over her for almost five years. He quieted for the next few months; military training perhaps? She did not really know if she should leap high, twirl a pirouette, scream shrilly, laugh crazily. Or cry for the loss of […]
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Stalked! By Jing Villamil THIS is a true story told by her who was stalked. And by him who stalked her since he was sixteen and she was a year younger. She was new in his school but this was not what caught his attention at once. She had the biggest brown eyes he had […]
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Love that binds! By Jing Villamil THIS true story is sourced from her who does what most wise men do not and goes to where most brave men dare not. The summer sun was not yet up, but she and the cops raced to a place where screams were heard and smoke was seen in […]
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May we be excused? By Jing Villamil FROM the day a teacher-friend received this particular excuse letter, to these days of her retirement, it was so very difficult, it has since been almost impossible for her to gather all her marbles together again. She still is knitting her brows over whether to laugh, or to […]
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Her Lab! By Jing Villamil HAVE you been loved more than you loved back? She did not kneel to Saint Jude and tuck Him a note, to send her one to love. Nor did she ask kins or friends to search the world for her, for one to love. In truth of fact (oh ha? […]
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My great love! By Jing Villamil YOU are my great love. You are the source of my strength. You are the light of my life. Though, you cast most of what is dark in me; you make me fear for me, for you. You make me weak. My love for you has no bounds. I […]
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Gone to colours! (Conclusion) By Jing Villamil AMONG the children of the subdivision who learned the basics of acrylic or oil on canvas from the artist-in-residence were these high school kids who were primarily sent to fetch their younger siblings home to lunch, dinner, or a nap. Eventually, the teeners stayed a little longer, intrigued […]
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Gone to colours! By Jing Villamil SOMETIMES, life’s stories seem more magnificently unlifelike, more of an untruth, than the Tagalog, Mexican, Korean, Chinese telenovelas we watch out for at the end of the day. Is it, maybe, the reel scenes seem more acceptably vivid in perspective coming to us from the screen rather than the […]