Author: Catlyn Rose Laurente

Catlyn Rose Laurente is a writer from the City of Naga, Cebu. She is a senior high school student from Minglanilla Science High School. She is an active participant to many extracurricular school competitions where she won contests in various division and regional school press conferences, essay contests, spelling bees, film competitions, coding, and even research competitions among many others. Her interests lie heavily on technology, human potential and societal afflictions. Laurente was given a fellowship for fiction during the 2023 Bathalad Sugbo Creative Writing Workshop held at the Rizal Museum of Cebu City.

  • The Call of the Dead

    2017 RAPID AND RHYTHMIC firing of heavy machine guns fill the air. Every second is a stream of bullets unleashed. Every bullet pierced human flesh it found, striking and shattering bones that came along its way, severing veins. The burst of gunfire tore through the silence that wrapped everyone in peace that midnight. Explosions erupted…