Why do writers love windows? So many wordsmiths have told stories about windows, placing their writing desks beside windows, and gazing out windows and suddenly having words come rushing to them. Goodreads has over 3000 quotes from literary works that use windows as imagery for poetry or as a plot device for prose. Saying, “That’s…
Sometimes when we travel, we encounter signs meant to inform but instead raise more questions. Like… All photos by Raydon L. Reyes
I spent my 26th birthday last May 3 inside two major caves in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. In the morning, my friend Girlie and I explored Ugong Rock Cave to go spelunking. That one was actually a pleasant surprise because I didn’t know it would be part of my itinerary for the Underground River tour. I…
Answer: Never. If you’re a literary fanatic (or a junkie for books turned into movies), then you’ve probably read or seen Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. And who could forget the scene where a Chinese woman turned into a panic machine as her fiancé poured soy sauce all over her mother’s steamed pork? You see,…
Question: Is rain still rain if the water stops dropping? If you were to suddenly gain the power to freeze time, ala-Piper from the ’90s show Charmed, and suspend the water in mid-air at will, then rain stops being rain because its definition depends on the act of falling, right? I think this photo is…
Just last year the American television station CBS aired the comedy show Partners, created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan of Will & Grace fame. Starring David Krumholtz and Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie, it portrays the friendship between two guys who decide to leave their 9 to 5 corporate life to go DIY with their careers and…
On August 17, 2009, my poem “Receding Orbit” got published in Philippines Graphic magazine. I’m posting it here. Hope you enjoy reading it. Receding Orbit by Raydon L. Reyes Strange, how even as I separate, I find myself drawn to you. I am the moon in orbit, trying to inch away from this gravitational cycle…
Yes, priests can be badass. Exhibit A: Janusz “Dimpo” Prud, a Polish priest who organized a two-week bicycle ride across Botswana, Africa to raise funds for orphanages with children suffering from HIV/AIDS. Talk about travelling for a cause! Dimpo didn’t know what was in store for him when he first arrived in Botswana in 1995.…
Russian writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (try saying that out loud) is one of those artists who find recognition post-mortem—after death. He literally did not live long enough to see his collection of short fiction Memories of the Future (Editions Verdier, 2006) see print and get appreciated by readers of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction encompasses written works that highlight…
At -4 degrees Celsius at 1 a.m. and trying to dodge the water droplets that had condensed inside my tent and were falling straight to my face, I couldn’t have hated myself more. I honestly didn’t know what I was thinking when I invited my friends to a hiking trip to Mt. Pulag in Benguet…
