Fiction

Check out the fiction and short stories published in Katitikan – Literary Journal of the Philippine South.


  • 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…


  • ?Hooooo!? Gibira ni Nenet ang pisi nga nagtapot sa ilong sa kabaw, mihunong kini sa pagkadungog sa iyahang singgaak. Nagtungtong siya sa buko-buko sa mananap…


  • Mag-aalas kwatro ng madaling araw, nagpaalam kang umalis. Tumambad sa atin ang mga bote ng alak na iniwang gumugulong sa kalsada ng mga sundalong halos…


  • Pasig River?s decline was said to be infamous. This was something else. Eunice had promised that the ferry would undercut traffic by hours. Orife believed…


  • Hermoso wakes up wishing he had a different life. He flirts with getting hair replacement therapy as he combs over his bald spot in the…