Celebrating Over Fifty Years of Solidarity
Editors
Migs Bravo Dutt
Claire Betita de Guzman
Aaron Lee Soon Yong
Eric Tinsay Valles
Chapter 1:
Same-Same, But Different
Personal Essay
Song of Two Cities [Lawrence Ypil]
The Happy Bridge [Gonaranao B. Musor]
Poetry
River Children [Paul Jerusalem]
Ode to my MRT Train Ride on a Sunday [Joanne Ongkeko]
Chapter 2:
Singapore. Is it a Port or a Harbor?
Personal Essay
Of Coming and Going [Manuelita Contreras-Cabrera]
Simple Musings [Adrienne Mae Huyo-a Perez]
The Power of a Massive Failure [Liza Baccay]
Poetry
Goodbye [Danton Remoto]
Extraordinary Woman [Rea Maac]
A Volunteer’s Heart [McRhon Banderlipe I]
He Called Me Mary [Jennifer Castillote]
Short Fiction
The Easiest Way to Solve a Problem
[Victor Fernando R. Ocampo]
Poetry
September Notebook [Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr.]
PAGI [Ng Yi-Sheng]
Personal Essay
#25otm [Annabelle Fabia de Arroz]
Notes from a Number One Fan [Windel Anne Lacson]
Pyramid [Sidd Perez]
Chapter 4:
Of Third Cultures &
Second Mother Tongues
Poetry
Cover [Reinarethna Selvaraju]
Tongue Twister [Paul Jerusalem]
Ingat ka ha! [Reinarethna Selvaraju]
Chapter 5:
Sadness & Grief
Poetry
Smiles of Sadness [Monica Walet]
Depression [Crystel Erika Guzman]
Mama [Shy Lhen Esposo]
Lucky [Theophilus Kwek]
Personal Essay
Death Without Goodbye [Janelyn Vergara]
Chapter 6:
Homesickness & Nostalgia
Poetry
The Trip [Georgette Yu]
Cooking Laing [Danton Remoto]
Poem About K [Desmond F. X. Kon]
Personal Essay
My Mee Siam Years [Ulric Vincenzo B. de Guzman]
Short Fiction
Harder Lives To Live [Noelle Q. de Jesus]
Chapter 7:
Places We Remember
Poetry
By the Bay Gardens [Dinah Roma]
East Coast Beach [Jennifer Castillote]
In the Neighborhood [Marc Nair]
Metro Manila Commute [Marc Nair]
Remembering EDSA II (2001), Metro Manila [Heng Siok Tian]
Poetry
Our Home [Cello Cabrera]
For The Garden-City, An Eternal Spring [Melvin Sico]
What Creeley Said, As Penitent [Desmond F. X. Kon]
Chapter 9:
All We Need Is Love.
And Second Chances
Poetry
I Do [Felix Cheong]
The Space Between Words is a Pause
[Catherine Candano]
Fixing, Here and Beyond [Rolinda Espanola]
Short Fiction
April in Singapore [Claire Betita de Guzman]
Blind Date [Mia Corazon Aureus]
Chapter 10:
Pause for the Pandemic
Poetry
The Day Dad Died [Pamela Wildheart Pilapil]
Salute [Eric Tinsay Valles]
Waiting Room [Aaron Lee Soon Yong]
Revising the Law of Distance [Migs Bravo Dutt]
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