Pre-War Works
Adlaw sa Minatay | Antonio Abasolo
Adlaw sa Minatay by Antonio Abasolo n the story, the protagonist remembers the dead on All Souls’ Day. Scenarios of loss of a child, mother, lover, and a friend that added a mournful and sorrowful tone of the story. As the story moved on, the protagonist has this longing of meeting or reuniting with his […]
Kadungganan | Candido Vasquez
Kadungganan by Candido Vasquez This piece opens a recognition of the many people who belong to different religions and professions and the differences in their ways of thinking. Vasquez then criticizes the groups within those religions and professions who divide themselves by virtue of religion – setting themselves above the rest and placing the rest […]
Ang Inahan Inahan sa gihapon | Florentino Tecson
Ang Inahan, Inahan sa gihapon by Florentino Tecson One stormy day, an old woman, Iya-Minay, reminisces about the past of her beloved son Tasyo. Since, he was only seven years old when she parted from him to go to Manila to receive education. As the story goes, Tasyo, years later, a man of humble beginnings […]
Takna sa Kabantan-on | Candido Vasquez
Takna sa Kabantan-on by Candido Vasquez Candido Vasquez dedicates this poem to a woman named Catalina Alfafara whom he describes as shis kauban ug higala. This poem is all about the breaking through the temptations present in the lives of adolescents which are characterized by the weakening of our fortitude especially in times of hardships. […]
Ang mga Kaguol ni To-Tinoy | Florentino Tecson
Ang mga Kaguol ni To-Tinoy by Florentino Tecson The story started out with To-Tinoy describing his life of solitude. He asked the reader if the reader wondered as to how he got there. He started reminiscing his father’s words of wisdom when December came, which was to find a wife in times of coldness. He […]
Pangigi kun pasangil? | Vicente Alcoseba
Pangigi kun pasangil? by Vicente Alcoseba Asun is a widow. She doesn’t decide which is the path to happiness and which is the path to misery, so she takes a blind gamble in love. She has two men who want to marry her, but she can’t decide what to do. She end up with the […]
Gugma! | Florentino Tecson
Gugma! by Florentino Tecson The story is about Lucing, a woman of great beauty, who wanted a suitor that would make her feel special. Despite of the beauty she possesses, Lucing wondered why nobody came to visit her. Ninong, a boy who works at Lucing’s house was trapped by his love for her. However, he […]
Ang Dungog Balaanon | Uldarico Alviola
Ang Dungog Balaanon by Uldarico Alviola Amboy has a wife named Nenang. Nenang became the center of talk in Cebu because she was said to be Tiyago’s girl. Tiyago was a womanizer, who loves to seduced and have fun with women. Amboy, the husband of Nenang did not believe in these rumors about his wife’s […]
Mga Buling sa Kaagi | Florentino Suico
Mga Buling sa Kaagi by Florentino Suico Rosa was a rich girl who was very sociable and who had lived a life under the spotlight of being elite. The night that she was about to be wed to his beloved, Diego, she then decided that she had to tell her soon to be husband a […]
Mahay sa Bukidnon | Uldarico Alviola
Mahay sa Bukidnon by Uldarico Alviola There were two young men named, Isyong and Kolas, who lived in a far away mountain of Cebu. They have different cultural views and interests in life but even if they differ from each other they were still good friends. Kolas was good at Cebuano writings and culture while […]