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Before we get into three parallel versions of Chapter 5, let’s go back to the beginning and consider yet another option. (I just saw Russian Doll.)

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The Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet. @WikiCommons

The Defenestrations
Chapter 5A
by Richard Allan Aquino

Part 1

Well, that didn’t work out.

Inigo woke up in a badly-lit room in a Bangkok hospital. There was an IV needle on his right hand, a scratchy robe on his otherwise naked body, and a 24-inch television at the foot of his bed showing Thai telenovelas in which the same things happened over and over again. He hadn’t felt this horrible since his first sponsored post for a Manila bookstore on Instagram only garnered 60 percent of projected likes.
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Schedule of readings, signings, other events
March

Reading Group Discussion of Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Saturday, 30 March, 4-6pm, Tin-Aw Gallery at Somerset Olympia, Makati Avenue, Makati

April

Twisted Travels Book Signing
Saturday, 13 April 2019, 4-6pm, Fully Booked at UP Town Center, QC

Twisted Travels Book Signing
Saturday, 27 April 2019, 4-6pm, Dia del Libro, Instituto Cervantes, Ayala Triangle Gardens, Makati

May

I will have a literary residency in La Coruna in Galicia, Spain from May 2-30. If you live in the area and would like to organize a reading or signing, let me know. Also if you want to order copies of Twisted Travels I could bring them.

Lisbon by Mike Fleming. Image from Wikimedia Commons.

The Defenestrations
Part 4C
by PJ Caña

Part 1

I don’t get paid nearly enough to deal with shit like this, Melissa thought. Bad enough that she had to handle the fallout after somebody actually died on the company-sponsored trip to Europe, now she had to deal with the dead guy’s mother.

“Ma’am Teepee, would you like to come up to the office? We can talk there.”

Teepee was clutching her handbag to her chest as if she expected burglars.

“Melissa!”

A man was striding towards them in a well-fitting suit. His face was angular and bony, as if all the flesh had been sucked out and all that was left was a thin film of pale skin and severe cheekbones.
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First day of Writing Boot Camp yesterday. Writing for fun, publication, and working out your demons (aka therapy). On Saturday, our participants will present their drafts.

The next Writing Boot Camp will be held in August or September (depends on our shooting sked). Email saffron.safin@gmail.com to be added to our mailing list.

Special thanks to Lord Fernandez for recording the proceedings and setting up our livestream.

Thanks to WSI Corporate Center for the excellent venue. WSI on Metropolitan Avenue, Makati has classrooms, conference rooms, and halls for social events. For inquiries, text 09475057890 or email wsiccevents@wsiphil.com.ph.

Detail from the sarcophagus of Prince Thutmose’s cat, from Wikimedia Commons

The Defenestrations
Chapter 4B
by Don Jaucian
(Thanks to Deo Giga)

Teepee remembered the first time she saw a ghost.

It was her grandfather, whom they had just buried that day. It was broad daylight and there he was in his workman’s clothes, sitting at his usual spot in front of their house, smoking as if he hadn’t been shot by one of the hacienda guards just a week ago. Didn’t ghosts usually appear at night? she asked herself. Her sisters entertained themselves with komiks that always had a story about a ghost, always as white as the sheets her mother washed for the haciendero’s family, forever terrorizing little children whose feet stuck out of their threadbare blankets at night. She thought those stories were silly, and later she would learn about creeps called pedophiles. She liked the tales where someone becomes rich and takes revenge on her enemies. Those, she could relate to.
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