Genre: Nonfiction
- about Samadhi
Nonfiction
Samadhi
"I think of how they begin life straight and hale, over decades or centuries to weaken against the mosses that eat their bark and the beetles that bore through them until, toppled by a storm or gravity, they lie decomposing at the feet of their kin now enjoying a clearer view of the sky."
- about Stolen Memories
Nonfiction
Stolen Memories
"Think of all those composite characters in the based-on-a-true-story movies you have watched on TV, people whose tireless efforts and selfless sacrifices to right injustices have been edited out for the sake of simplifying the truth in the name of entertainment. But memories have value. They are not things to discard, distort, or destroy without regard."
- about Greetings from Costa Rica
Nonfiction
Greetings from Costa Rica
"How many labors until I can untangle these invisible threads of pain I cling to? I wish I wasn’t tied to them. I wish I could rid myself of this ordeal, find the road back, seize an elixir, be cast among the stars, no longer a burden but a shimmering glow above."
- about The Bugbear
Nonfiction
The Bugbear
"One thing I also knew about the Aswang, is that it was able to experience the range of emotions all humans felt. When my father was angry, his Aswang, in spite of its search for blood, was experiencing a range of emotions that I had only come to acknowledge I, myself, had as an adult."