MORE STORIES AT www.tagalogshortstories.net
This website, sponsored by Kaibigan Books, is committed to showcase and preserve Filipino literary articles.
It aims to provide Filipinos literature, book and magazine articles, that are both entertaining and cultural wherever they may be in the world (because they have become immigrants to and overseas workers in many countries).
Subjects of the articles have Philippine flavors or Filipino themes.
Children of overseas Filipinos can acquaint themselves with the language, culture, history, and customs and character of their parents. For ease of acquiring the books/magazines, they may be purchased online through Amazon.com
The Philippine short stories series feature contemporary and vintage stories written in Tagalog and translated in English. The stories have been featured in literary magazines Liwayway, Bulaklak, Aliwan, and others; and the California-based newspaper, Asian Journal.
The stories dramatize, among others, tattooing in the Philippines – a ritual of deep spiritual meaning; explore the realms of the Nuno sa Punso (Old Man of the Mound), discover a space alien, the Ifugao-Bontoc people of the world-famous Banaue rice terraces, the world as seen by an old mango tree. Other stories narrate human experience in love, in hardship, in victory and failure, in gaining and losing honor. The narrations provide a glimpse into the Philippines, then and now.