Author: Erika Carreon
Erika M. Carreon co-founded Plural Online Journal and co-runs with Neobie Gonzalez the indie art page Occult’s Razor, under which they had produced A Descending Order of Mortal Significance, one of the best Filipino books of 2017 according to CNN Philippines. Her poems and short stories have appeared in High Chair, Kritika Kultura, Philippines Free Press and Anomaly Journal. Her work will also appear in Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology from the Philippines and Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (both forthcoming 2021). She provided artwork for Adam David’s zine, The Nature of Beasts vol. 1, and illustrated Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles’s poetry collection Chi. She is currently taking her PhD at the University of Melbourne with a special interest in ecofiction.
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Taglunod, Tagsunog
The First Arcology When they had begun building the arcology it didn’t have a name. Many had not heard the word before, did not know the origins, and their minds fashioned an Ark of incredible size. It was beyond language and therefore beyond imagination. They were the dreamers with means. They wanted to dream their…
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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…