Work of folktales, historical pieces, fiction and nonfiction: stories and novels set mostly in Zamboanga Peninsula and Maguindanao. Chabacano pieces.
The Waterlogged Files 07 “A Coverup Most Foul” City Lights By Antonio Ma. Nieva Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 6, 1992 – Twenty-eight days to the eight year of his death by an assassin’s gun, Cesar Cortes Climaco’s ghost haunts the streets of Zamboanga...
Read moreThe Waterlogged Files 06 “Murder in Broad Dayligh” Time: November 26, 1984 -- So commonplace is violence in the southern Mindanao seaport of Zamboanga City that Mayor Cesar Climaco, 68, tallied the killings on a billboard outside the municipal hall. The...
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Note: You may not realize it, but you can’t read this during martial law ¾ ’72-’86. I got to read this myself only today as I typed it in my PC, having found it damp and muddy after Typhoon Sendong. Caught reading it then, I mean, during the Marcos dictatorship...
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