February 2021

Si Gabriela Baron ay nagtapos ng Journalism at kumuha ng maikling kurso sa Panitikan at Malikhaing Pagsulat sa Filipino. Kasalukuyang nagsusulat sya Manila Bulletin.

  • Quaranfic

    Tondo 1 “Nay pwede na lumabas?!” Napabalikwas sa higaan si Jeng-jeng nang makarinig ng mga naghuhuntahan at naglalarong bata. “Oo, ikaw na lumabas para bumili ng ulam at marami pa kong isasampay. Yung kapatid mo papasukin mo na rin dito!”  Agarang tumayo si Jeng-jeng at kinuha ang barya mula sa ina.

  • Lamiraw

    Most people don’t know this. The only ones who do are seers, dreamwalkers and those born with the sight like me. Long ago before the age of Man, gods walked the Earth. It was a time when the world was newly-born like an infant, when there was no difference between waking and dreaming. This time…

  • How Sitio San Roque Turned into a Garden

    Everything in the dilapidated houses has been sitting on the same place for many years that if one lifts an object, its shadow will refuse to leave the surface. Except that there’s no one to do that now. Everything – not only in the houses but in the whole sitio where the houses stand limply…

  • Ghosts

    Root crop, sugarcane, corn, and between these, giant weeds. It didn’t matter. They all speak, their susurrations a language the Maylupa do not understand. The Maylupa and their kin have been living in these hectares for as long as they can remember. And for as long as they can remember, they have been suspicious of…

  • Ang Mga Hindi Nakarating

    Kinukulog ng makulimlim na langitang tambol ng sikmura, at sa ulol niyang paghiraya,ang bawat dagundong ay katoksa pinto ng puwedeng dulugan habang nag-aabang sa ayudang tulad ni Godot,tatawag siya sa misis na nahimpil sa siyudad.Sinusubukang tumawid ng mga tinig sa selpon,yaring mga kinurakot na kumustahan,mga lata ng kuwentuhang napanis at nais ipainit,mga sobra sa hinog nang…