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1. Drinking Rio Grande de Mindanao
(July 2018/Fiction)
...hen I said yes this morning to Max and Abdul's invite to a day out at the river, I didn't think Papa would be upset about it. I didn't think he would scold me anymore because I'd grown...

2. Death for Serafina
(July 2018/Fiction)
...rainer and the pot ready on the stove. She sliced the ginger and onion, pounded the garlic, chopped the papaya and picked the chili leaves, but didn't start cooking, instead deciding to wait for L...

3. Two Poems
(July 2018/Poetry)
...tilan, maabot na siyam ka semana ngan us' ka balde nga mga upos hin kandila nga'n pagkapapaas han mga manmaratbat, hi Sipring waray la gihap' kalulukat. Apinas makaamot...

4. Salve
(July 2018/Fiction)
...s a great day to be out. I am struck again by the strange beauty, yes, beauty, of early mornings in Talipapa. I guess anything, even this pigsty of a place, can look gentler in the first light of day....

5. Four Poems
(July 2018/Poetry)
by Jona Branzuela Bering in Bisaya, translated into English by the poet KANG PAPA GIKAN SA EAST COAST, AUSTRALIA Lahi ang kaguol sa mga taw diri. Kada-buntag mobisita silas dagat. Igo rang motan-

... ripped the floorboards and toppled the shelves full of saints. Spoon still hanging in my mouth, Papa spirited me out into the streets and cried that the sky was bleeding. The millennium ...

...sides Karnan’s storyline, which is set during the Japanese Occupation, the novel also focuses on Papatti, a Chinese girl who has been adopted by an Indian family. The novel alternates between...

...undings. The opening story, "The Movie Dog," gives allegorical names to a family of three: Papabon, Mamabon and their son, Sokobon. "Bon" in Japan can be a suffix for rich, igno...

9. Selected Poems
(June 2017/Poetry)
... When he was tired of playing with the dog, he would take aim at a shōchū bottle Left empty by acha papa and fill it with piss He grew up, and the dog learnt how to pull a sledge The child gr...

10. The Phone Call
(June 2017/Fiction)
...vacantly watched the smoke wreathe upward from the incense at my father's grave. "Good news, Papa—your teacher has come to visit you." But even as I said that to his grave marker...

11. Sometimes
(December 2016/A-Festival)
...y   Vindula dejone erotella Delias oraia Urania leilus Grapium sarpedon Appias nero figulina Papa I repeat the names of common Malayan butterflies from the book that used to be on the lon...

...rds like "massage parlour." Some afternoons, when the house sinks into sleep, we sneak into Papa's office. Papa has been dead for many years, but this shadowy room curtained off from t...

13. Okaeri
(December 2016/Creative non-fiction)
...s laid beneath slim tombstones along with the dust of everyone else's ancestors. Never mind it all: Papa and I remained in the kind of cultural limbo reserved for foreigners who will always, no ma...

...in road." Eventually, modernity invades folklore, as this excerpt in Part VI of the poem shows: paparazzi rush in cats chase them away the dragon wears a giant mask the tiger measures his ...

...: found it slight that his own step-brothers began splitting the estate in Mongkok and North Point his papa said was his — finally with tired eyes stared back again at his rooms overlooking t...

16. Meeting with the Sea
(June 2016/Creative non-fiction)
... birds. This is where the fishermen would catch siput (sea snails) then cook them with slices of unripe papaya, small prawns and santan (coconut milk). Here, the ocean is a translucent mud tint, lik...

...n is excited to finally leave the "watchful eyes" of the judgmental Hakka community and "Papa's domineering, protective patriarchy," which rules over the Wu family, including J...

18. Par
(December 2015/Peel Street Poetry)
by Blair Reeve This is par for the course. Rap. Par. Rapper. Papa. Parp parp! I’m a papa rapper! I reap the people. Pippety poppety rippety rap. I’m on a par ten. I'm a rapper p

19. Psalms
(September 2015/Creative non-fiction)
.... Maybe. I knew it wasn't Mom he was talking to for I did not hear her answer. Then I heard him say Papang, the same term he'd used to address my grandfather who had passed away several years ...

20. Two Poems
(September 2014/Whither Hong Kong)
...e buns made of gutter oil and without pineapple. 'Doesn't matter,' a sixty-four-year-old Papa says, 'we have survived and will survive for another fifty years.' Hong Kong i...

21. Coming Home
(September 2014/Poetry)
...ce of sandalwood, Jasood flowers—            my papa's little pooja room. Ganesh the god, obstacle remover, welcomes me    &...

...weeten my life when I inherited the pungent bitterness of cloves enfolding your Zanzibar childhood, the papaya orange Swahili sun staining your heart. These images and objects symbolise the love, ho...

23. Two Poems
(June 2014/Poetry)
by Susan Kelly-DeWitt Two Geishas on an Anonymous Print, 1923 Light-Keeper’s Song  

... before her history of Western Art, Now hoisted on her unsuspecting sons. Sculpted torsos of writhing Papal heroes; Enduring Western masculinity all muscle and olive girth Arching above the eyes o...

25. Arthur Leung
(November 2012/Hong Kong Feature)
...se than the Tiu Tin ghost Nga Wu appeared, suspended above my bed, ceiling bound. I hid my face behind papa's arm for an elder dressed in black. II. Narrow corridor, 14th floor I saw a black f...

26. Bamboo, Lotus, Moon
(June 2012/Photography)
by Papa Osmubal

27. Papa Osmubal
(June 2012/Contributors)
Papa Osmubal writes from Macau. His works, visual and literary, appear in numerous places, online and hardcopy, most recently in Bulatlat and Poor Mojo's Almanac(k). He writes regularly for eK! (

28. Two Poems
(June 2012/Poetry)
by Julia Cariño Hungry Papa sat by the car, smoking his Marlboros, red box cigarette foil creased into a skinny makeshift toothpick, tucked behind his ear for the aftermeal, guitar leaning be

29. Soft Coral, Sinking Pearl
(March 2012/Fiction)
...ll chop his dick off and feed it to his mother – Luang said, slamming her cleaver down, halving a papaya – That son of a bitch. What did I tell you? –It was over soon enough &ndas...

30. Mist on the Jungle
(March 2012/Fiction)
...agic indeed, cultivated sporadically on either side of the track and there sown with crops: sweet corn, papaya, dragon fruit and some coffee bushes. Further back, the lush mix of palms, bamboo and tal...

31. Catching Iguanas
(November 2011/Fiction)
...g. My mother made herself a tumbler of Ovaltine and played with her rosary while she stared at the only papaya tree in the garden. My father, having put Mary to bed with a handful of pills, was in the...

32. The Dublin Studio Portrait
(February 2011/Fiction)
...anor New Dublin Villa and allow his antiques and artefacts to take the best of walls. "Of course...papa," Joe was stumped by Grace's instant nod. The packers and movers descended and s...

33. Macau Photos
(February 2010/Photography)
by Papa Osmubal

34. A Bum's Demise
(February 2010/Poetry)
by Papa Osmubal He is dead: his liver turned Hard and bone-dry like a stone. He left in mysterious and unexpected fashion, leaving us all asking And wondering as though his demise was a riddle that n

35. Papa Osmubal
(February 2010/Contributors)
Papa Osmubal writes from Macau. His works, visual and literary, appear in numerous places, online and hardcopy, most recently in Bulatlat and Poor Mojo's Almanac(k). He writes regularly for eK! (e

36. The Subcontinent Pride
(May 2009/Fiction)
...ing carts of sticks or market produce. Cars, motorized rickshaws, bicycles, and motor bikes loaded with papas, mammas, and a child—sometimes two—squished in between all vied for a place in...

37. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(February 2010/Front page)
...th Schultz, Daniel Bowman Jr., Michael O'Sullivan, Lucy Lu, Ocean Vuong, Mariejoy San Buenaventura, Papa Osmubal, Jean YeoJin Sung, Rocco de Giacomo, Selina Libi Bjorlie, Chris Tse, Angela Eun Ji ...

38. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(June 2012/Front page)
...Liao Translation: Owen Cooney Photography & art: Christopher Leibow (cover artist), Matthew Wong, Papa Osmubal Book reviews: Glen Jennings, Alice Tsay, Abigail Cheung, Peter van de Kamp, Goh Ch...

39. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(August 2008/Front page)
...Gilbert Koh, Franky Lau, Mary Lee, Manuel Libres Librodo Jr, Lyn Lifshin, Reid Mitchell, Evelde Mourne, Papa Osmubal, Thaila Ramanujam, Margaret Stawowy and Ouyang Yu. Our first anniversary issue is...

40. Two Macau Poems
(August 2008/Poetry)
by Papa Osmubal At Hac Sa Beach, Macau       The moon is a wide-eyed owl, eavesdropping at our every word, gazing at us while we walk naked reliving our days in the womb whe

41. Papa Osmubal
(August 2008/Contributors)
Papa Osmubal writes from Macau. His works, visual and literary, appear in numerous places, online and hardcopy, most recently in Closer Macau, Smokebox, foam:e, Bulatlat, Mascara, and will appear in t

42. Two Poems
(August 2008/Poetry)
...Caught an insect, held it in my hand. Plucked a leg off, as I softly sang. Very cruel, very bad. Surely Papa would come home, if I were bad. Make me hurt, for being bad. One more leg then, and another...

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