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Just a Dream

He woke up in a place with insects, he freaked when he saw he was the same size as the insects and could also talk to them. He saw some insects injured and asked “What happened to you?”, they answered him in fear, “This place is being conquered by a giant.” He realized that the giant they were talking about was himself. He felt so sorry for what he did, so he immediately apologized. The next day he wakes up finding out everything is normal again.

-Carlos

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Home

 She wanders around the cold, snowy streets looking for something, with a pale face, wearing thin, ragged clothes, shivering as she thinks if her mother is happy above. She sees a warm, empty bench under a bright street light a few steps away, she hurries to the bench as fast as her little legs could until she got to the bench. She shivers, yawns, and lays down smiling, whispering “mom, I’m coming.” The next morning, she woke up to find out she was home.

 - Lalaine

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Urbana and Felisa

The novel emphasizes how important a woman's proper behavior and etiquette are during the Spanish colonization. Do the concepts still appear in today's society. Today’s society still having discrimination about women’s that they should only stay at home and be a full time mother.

Urbana at Feliza is a story about a series of letters of two women in the Spanish colonization period who gave each other advice in right conduct. Written by Filipino literary priest Modesto de Castro.

The summary of the story is about two sisters who exchange letters about what is happening in their lives. Feliza asks for advice from Urbana knowing that her sister knows what is the right thing to do. Feliza asks for advice from Urbana because her sister is studying in Manila, her sister shares her knowledge to guide her sister. Also, he condemned their younger brother Honesto to not engage in fights and hang out with bad people. The letters were all about day to day life. And Feliza asked Amedeo her suitor because she had second thoughts about marrying him. But she advanced the wedding after Urbana settled down. Then Feliza tells their father that he wants to let Urbana know he was buried after death because he doesn't want to let Urbana be sad. At the last Urbana says she wanted to pursue being a nun

- Justine

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Death Bed

After returning home, there was no one at home and it looked like something happened while i was gone. I reported to police but they couldn't find leads on where my parents were. I had nightmares about it, the second week i started to smell something rotting. I searched for it but couldn't find anything. In third week, i looked under the bed for a pair of shoes and opened the drawers, but instead, I found two corpses. The forensic said that two corpses were tightly under the bed. Months later she held the funeral but suprisingly she didn't feel sad at all.

-Samantha

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Tungkung Langit and Alunsina

Would you sacrifice the things you are working with just for your beloved one's, even if you're working on a project that can improve the way you live? Would you send him/her away even if he/she you will regret what you did? A lovesick panda once said this love quote “if you’ve never been hurt, you’re either very lucky or very lonely.”

Tungkung Langit and Alunsina was originated by Philippines mythology and it is a Visayan creation story. This story talks about how this man sent her wife away because she sent a breeze to spy on him. They have trust issues between each other and doubted their faith in love. It shows that once you release your words that harmed somebody, then you can never take it back.

 The story is about a god named Tungkung Langit, and a goddess named Alunsina. He was the god who made the world in the story, he wanted to arrange the world so that it would move regularly. Alunsina the goddess, who is selfish and gets jealous easily, sent a breeze to spy on her husband because she doubted him. 

 Everyone in this world would get angry if someone betrayed and doubted you about how they feel in their heart, maybe you would cut the relationship between you and him/her or you would never contact them again. This kind of situation happened in the story when Tungkung Langit found out and sent her away. 

But after a few months, Tungkung Langit felt lonely and missed her wife, he regretted that he sent her away. No one was waiting for him at the door after he worked and that led to depression. He thought, if he scattered Alunsina’s beloved jewels in the sky and turned them into stars, moon and sun she would return to the palace. 

Tungkung Langit waited for too long but she didn’t come back. Thus when it rains, it means that Tungkung Langit is crying because he missed Alunsina.

  -Viv

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Long Lost Dream

What if you, as a man/woman again meets someone you fell in love with, while engaged to someone? Would you care if society judges you? Or would you just follow what your heart desires?

Dead Stars is a narrative story which takes rise to contemporary Philippine English poetry. The author Paz Márquez-Benitez writes a story about affection in the novel Dead Stars, it also reflects the time where literary work is composed of the language and beliefs of the people. It is like a literary time machine, allowing the people and readers to understand courtship and marriage were like in the early 1900s. It shows the difference between the past and the present, where culture and traditions are changing.

The story is about a man named Alfredo Salazar. He believes in true love and hopes to find what truly makes him happy. The first woman Alfredo loved is Esperanza, and they are engaged, but as time passes by his love for Esperanza is slowly gone, and he falls in love with another woman named Julia. Alfredo struggled to choose from the two of them, but in the end, Alfredo was afraid that people would judge him for choosing Julia over Esperanza, therefore Julia left, and Alfredo and Esperanza got married.

"Dead Stars" symbolizes a dream for something that doesn't exist. In the story, Alfredo falls in love with Julia, she was his star. He thought love was there, but like a dead star which is so far away, he was a long way from getting Julia, and the love he thought was possible, never was.

Alfredo was in love with Esperanza, but there was a time that love faded, and the only thing that is holding and bonding the relationship was a vow that was promised and can't be taken back. For Alfredo, love was weak and purposive, because it was overcome by suitability. It was just being used to justify his desire to go against society. He was the one controlling himself and was worried that society would judge him, even though he and Esperanza are already engaged. Alfredo kept holding on to the marriage.

Alfredo struggles against society. During the time of the story, people often pay heavy attention to the community they relate to, so Alfredo was afraid of the reaction of the people. They attempt to confirm the society’s standards, traditions, and culture, although sometimes conformity would force them to give a portion of themselves, such as attitude, an impulse, or a choice.

- diana✨