by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Jun 16, 2019 | Essays
At last: Juan has a child with whom he tells stories at bedtime. He fidgeted, swallowed and stared at his daughter’s expectant eyes. Brown eyes as they are, he thought of an answer, snuggled in bed with her, and began telling her a story back when the land was still...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Jun 16, 2019 | Essays
It was he running out the door sobbing and scared. Having tripped on a tree stump, he fell kissing the ground. He got up and ran again for all his life’s worth. I watched him intently as tears rolled from his fearful eyes to his muddy cheeks. I saw the fulfillment of...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Jun 16, 2019 | Essays
Because of massive publicity, the lure of the red dimension has encompassing appeal to all of society’s minds. Since it is a race on which the last man standing is, the riders gather in unlikely places to behold or take part in the highly acclaimed game within the...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Jun 16, 2019 | Essays
In Time Magazine’s March 18 issue, the famous author of The Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches said that she has one more book to write that will end Lestat’s reign in gothic literature. Meaning, after her spiritual transformation, she will never write about...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Jun 16, 2019 | Essays
Privileged Lives. Adj. 1. Too many dreams but too few a means. 2. All due to poverty. No literature has yet been personally encountered about the role of government in all – out poverty, nor the relationship of politics and poverty, but external observation has been...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Jun 16, 2019 | Essays
Black: the height of grief, the fulfillment of the darkest emotions, of loss and despair, of gripping fatality, the lamentation of the past, and finally, of a shredded life. It is the same color that reins the trail of an upturned stance. When it lands, it blows off...