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Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
Would you buy flowers
for yourself? Can you
tell me all the people who would?
The people who have?

Marías at Sampaguitas
Feb 2, 20211 min read


Poetry by L.R. Dimaandal
How many spoonfuls of shame must you measure out
To start the recipe of my humanity?

Marías at Sampaguitas
Jan 27, 20212 min read


Poetry by Anureet Watta
Forgive me,
my arrival has disrupted your sentences.
gender is such a hoax, isn’t it?

Marías at Sampaguitas
Jan 27, 20211 min read


Poetry by Juliette Sebock
I subscribe to a dozen magazines one night
because these are such good deals
and I've reignited an affair from years ago

Marías at Sampaguitas
Jan 23, 20211 min read


Flash Fiction by Morgan Dante
“What’s he doing?” Jophiel asked, brushing their cornsilk hair out of their eyes.

Marías at Sampaguitas
Jan 23, 20213 min read


Poetry by Shreyaa Tandel
when the sun goes down
we step
Together in glass slippers
Far afar by miles, near with fright
Of being predated, chased, killed

Marías at Sampaguitas
Jan 18, 20211 min read


Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
I find a sunny place to survive.
Every morning, a new magnum opus greets me
& I am so awake
& my parents don’t have to worry.

Marías at Sampaguitas
Jan 18, 20211 min read


Poetry by Christine Fojas
the pen pierces the point in the plane
of my graphing paper, at rest
before it swoops, curves, and loops,
where am I?

Marías at Sampaguitas
Jan 18, 20211 min read


Creative Non-Fiction by Noreen Ocampo
My father insisted that I should have perfect handwriting.

Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 16, 20204 min read


Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
In the refrigerator:
an unopened bottle of orange juice with
half the sugar already missing
because my mother remembered

Marías at Sampaguitas
Dec 3, 20201 min read


Poetry by Joseph Schwarzkopf Jr./Butchoy
My mother tells me of half recalled grandparents
With possibility of tainted blood, of self destruction
Of women who hid with their sisters

Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 21, 20201 min read


Poetry by Christian Aldana
This is what joy looks like:
palm to palm, radiant, mga kasama.
Sing like every tomorrow is infinite

Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 21, 20202 min read


Flash Fiction by A.R. Salandy
Natural Selection The quaint dwelling seemed to hunker down on itself as a bleak wind tore through the night, rousing restless trees in...

Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 1, 20202 min read


Review by Noreen Ocampo
Finish Filipinx American History Month on a strong note and show Elsa Valmidiano your support!

Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 27, 20203 min read


Flash Fiction by Francine Witte
Close like they did long ago. Death watches from the lawn, stalker that he is. He puts his deathpencil behind his ear and stares.

Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 25, 20201 min read


Poetry by Aleah Dye
There is a part of me that knows my boyfriend is human/ but part of me still thinks him angel/ sprite/ fairy/ elf/everything soft

Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 25, 20202 min read


Poetry by Bea Piñero
The darkness of
The past frightens me
For I once lost
Myself, trapped in
Society’s idea of perfection

Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 19, 20201 min read


Poetry by Keith Daniel Espina
A hit a sip then a chug then the lights start to strobe with a flash as it blinks as the thrill of the night hits a peak

Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 18, 20202 min read


Poetry by Christine Fojas
Every morning in paradise, the locals go out to bury the remains
tourists have left in their wake under the sand.

Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 15, 20201 min read


Poetry by Debasis Tripathy
In an unnamed grave,
a few centuries after death,
when they dig out my skeleton -
from the pelvis and the skull

Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 15, 20201 min read
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