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Weekly Contest #17
“On Laura Esquivel and My Meals” “You are no Laura Esquivel!” I told the young woman in the mirror. Like scenes from a movie, I saw the petite woman prepared meals that punctuated events of her life. “You are like Tita in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate.” I heard myself whisper to the woman again. Saying this opened some dusty boxes of memories I have long pushed under the rag. Memories, both happy and painful came rushing like stemmed water Dinegdeng nga saluyot. ( Okra leaves stew) How can I forget the first time I c...
Weekly Contest #11
The Painting By Rosario Patino-Yap The last of the moving van left. I had spent the morning running around the bungalow that had been home to Harold and me. I wandered through the house to see if anything precious was left behind. No, nothing was forgotten. Except for the potted mums that lined the curving pathway. They were newly-watered and weeded. Looking up the heavens in colorful blooms. My “sunny side up” house echoed in silence. The sunshine yellow house earned that monicker because of ...
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