Long-Fiction | Space Age Love Song (TayNew AU Fic) Part Four
PART FOUR: We'll Cut Our Bodies Free From the Tethers of This Scene It was during his second week of stay when Parallel New asked me about this universe’s New. We were both in the living room, reading our separate books. The question came out of nowhere that it too…
Long-Fiction | Space Age Love Song (TayNew AU Fic) Part Five + Epilogue
PART FIVE: And We Become Silhouettes When Our Bodies Finally Go It had been a year since Parallel New—my Hin—came to my life. Gun hadn’t been in touch after the last time we talked. He probably thought I was already a lost cause. Every morning when I woke up next to Hi…
Sort of a TV Review | Dark Blue Kiss (2019)
It has been days since I finished Dark Blue Kiss and I’m still having some major separation anxiety and withdrawal from it. I still find myself rewatching clips on YouTube (I always cry every time I rewatch that 3rd anniversary scene) and I still can’t stop thin…
Sort of a Film Review | The Platform (2019)
Despite its brevity, The Platform (2019) felt as stretched as its multi-level pit setting. But that's not really a bad thing as there's no wasted minute in this film. From start to finish, director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia developed the movie with so much inten…
Sort of a Film Review | Edward (2019)
Edward (2019) worked so well as a tender coming-of-age story and a social criticism of the state of public health in the country. The one-shot opening was masterfully filmed, but also one of the most important scenes. It shed light on just how poor our public hospit…
Sort of a TV Review | Theory of Love (2019)
It’s safe to say that we’ve all been in Third’s shoes: secretly in love with his unavailable best friend who only sees him as such, a friend. (If you haven’t experienced this, well, congratulations. You haven’t known the agony and the constant heartbreak of seeing…
Long-Fiction | The Old Men's Club
As I got off the jeepney, a lone motorcycle with two riders stopped in front of me. The driver looked at me with a knowing gaze and I nodded. He looked exactly like the picture he sent me, even with the helmet on. Riding behind him was a guy I didn't know. The dr…
