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My Life As Art

Peter’s Prize for Short Story 2020

YOU FIRST heard of this contest in March, maybe a week after the Manila lockdown. True to the guidelines, we are opening the submission period...

Celia F. Parcon and the Peter’s Prize

FIRST off, Part 6, and the conclusion, of the story we have serialized beginning April 17. * FATHER OLAN, GOD, AND THE RAIN By Peter Solis Nery Translated by...

Padre Olan in English translation

(This is Part 5 of Father Olan, God, and the Rain by Peter Solis Nery. Translated from the Hiligaynon by Celia F. Parcon) IN KEEPING with the...

Father Olan, God, and the Rain

(This is Part 4 of ‘Father Olan, God, and the Rain’. Story by Peter Solis Nery. Translated by Celia F. Parcon. * Father Fritz Dayaday, secretary to...

Celia Parcon’s ‘Nothing’s Lost’

THIS IS Part 3 of the brilliant translation by Prof. Celia Parcon of my Palanca-winning story. Celia Parcon was my Communication Arts II teacher at UPV. I am...

Celia Parcon translates the psn

THIS IS Part 2 of the series that started last Friday. Retired UPV professor Celia F. Parcon is the recipient of the 2020 Peter’s Prize for Excellence...

In Celia F. Parcon’s translation

THIS IS the first part of Peter Solis Nery’s 2013 Palanca award-winning story “Si Padre Olan, and Dios kag ang Ulan” translated by retired UPV Professor...

Preparing the way

AFTER THE Holy Week, I wanted to go back to my series of answering random questions that reveal more my personality. I started that column series...

Another coronaverse

HALLELUJAH! The Lord is Risen. Peace be with you. Hallelujah! * I really pray you are still hopeful, and feeling alive, at this time of Easter, my dear readers. These are...

How to die a little

KNOW that panic will not solve anything. Know that prayers for your daily food, and for your own safety, may not really help. Know that there are selfish prayers,...