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Submitted to Contest #83
Thirsty. It was three in the morning and Perlas was thirsty. She got up from the narrow bed in her rented apartment, the covers sticking to the sweat-soaked clothes on her back. Her hair was drenched too, a consequence of the midsummer heat that had become unbearable seemingly overnight. Manila could be chilly from the northeast winds one day and sweltering the next. She crossed the ten steps to her refrigerator and yanked it open. She was not sure what she expected but was aghast to find she had just one bottle of water left. Sh...
Submitted to Contest #9
Fade in, focus on me.My name is Maria. What a nice name, people always tell me, Maria is a perfect name for someone so sweet. My parents say it’s because Maria is the name of the virgin, and they always remind me of this when they run out of things to say. I come from a poor family; my father is a slave in fields that are not ours, my mother is a servant in rich houses, and my older brother does nothing but stay out in the fields and talk nonsense to his carabao.I’m very beautiful, of course, I wouldn’t be the star of this tel...
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