My good friend, Uche Peter Umezurike of Nigeria, won a Good Commendation Prize at the 2008 Commonwealth Short Story Competition for his short fiction, Three Apples.Uche is the author of the children’s novel Sam and the Wallet (2007), the collection of short stories Tears ...
I ESCAPED work Monday, early, working my fingers off early in the morning till noon and then, poof. I left Davao City, just like that.There was a very good reason to disappear. My friends were bidding goodbye to Bro. Karl Gaspar via an overnight wine and DVD party out there in the ...
first printed on M: Life and Living in Mindanao magazine, Volume 1, No. 3
“A vocal powerhouse ….soulful all-female group with their own brand of world music… Rock and roll. Tribal drums. A lilting acapella chorus singing lullabies. Powerful harmonies weaving messages of motherhood, love, the goddess, domestic violence and women’s strength. …They were ...
Walking to Starbucks for my after-dinner coffee, I caught MTV's TRL Total Finale Live! on Times Square -a block from my hotel. A huge crowd gathered on the street for the 8pm show. Beyonce opened the show with a song and dance number that I could ...
