Author: Evan Tan
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Doves & Serpents
It makes me think, sometimes, if the thing that makes us trusting is what makes us gullible.
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#TaiwanAwayWithMe: Taipei 2016
This is the part, you’ve got to say all that you’re feelingPacking a bag, we’re leaving tonight when everyone’s sleeping Hold on to me, I never want to let you go–Over the weekend, we can turn the world to gold Video: Charz MendozaMusic: “Run Away With Me” by Carly Rae Jepsen
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Taiwan, in a Few Words
I love traveling. I guess that comes to no surprise to anyone who knows me well. I’ve seen a lot of the Philippines ever since I was a kid, thanks to my parents’ insatiable wanderlust. (Yes, excuse me for using that word: I know it sounds so corny, how it’s thrown so easily nowadays.) I…
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Open the Door; Let Love In
You do not understand. You do not understand because you refuse to understand anything that falls outside your realm of experience. (And perhaps that will be the frailty of your empathy: that you, as a person who has lived with so much privilege, must always use yourself as the measuring stick of what it means…
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Re-, Dis-connect
This Sunday evening, I had a conversation about connections–in particular, about people whom we truly value, and those who stay in the fringes–either as passersby, or pushed aside.
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By Worrying, Add a Single Hour
An earlier version of this story was submitted in the 60th Palanca Awards. This is not a story about the engine loudly braying that early morning – the jeepney driver’s foot on the pedal whipping violently this mechanical beast of burden. The motor’s cries echoed on the empty streets that cold December, as the driver…
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The True Man Show
I first saw Balian Buschbaum while watching National Geographic’s Taboo episode “Changing Gender” years back. My curiosity was piqued. I thought the episode would help me understand myself more as a gay man, and how I could explain myself better to people who didn’t seem to get that wearing dresses or being obsessed with Miss…
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Conversations with your Future Self: No. 1
“Dear Forgiveness, I saved a plate for you. Quit milling around the yard and come inside.” – “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”, Richard Siken Photograph from The New York Public Library Digital Collections
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Protected: TWO50TWO Update: Story #6, “ETA”; & #7, “Liwayway”
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A Writer from Manila 