In the car this morning my sister was sitting in between my parents going on and on about moving out of the house so she can live near the overpriced fashion and arts college that she wants to attend. She wanted to know if she could buy new furniture, "because the furniture there might not be stylish," and new clothes, "so I don't have to come home ( Read more... )

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My mum quit her job because I was sick and then I flew out here to bring her home and I'm well again, I'm well again. That city I left behind is a disease, and my little island hometown is the cure and the calling.

I know that "I met someone who is a lot like you" is not what you want to hear, because you pride yourself on your autobiography and unique diction but there are children running down the corridors of the building where I live, and there are more stars here than are possible in Manila, and when I curl my toes into the sand on the beach there is a ( Read more... )

A morning alone, having snapped at my mother and then watched her walk away from me, huffily. Mind running in the background, sifting through the refrigerator's contents for a possible lunch. Or maybe this bag of crystallized ginger, sharp on the sides of the tongue, licking sugar off my fingertips, mouth aflame. I don't want to move, but the right ( Read more... )

Da fuq

Back in Guam, that little tropical American town sprawling lazily over two hundred square miles, give or take a few. Looking at it from the plane I wondered why it looked like many tiny islands rather than one whole slab of luminescence when I realized there were entire areas devoted to trees and not to power lines ( Read more... )

dad didn't come home last night & when i woke up this morning he wasn't here either. found out only late in the day, & from my older cousin who texted my mother in guam ( Read more... )

while my mother & i were in the movie theater this afternoon, watching zach & miri make a porno, a 5.6 richter-scale earthquake struck. everybody stared straight ahead at seth rogen writhing in pain in a car as a handwarmer burned his ball hair off. my mother grabbed my arm & started murmuring her prayers. nobody else moved as the room shook from ( Read more... )