The Vanishing Island and Other Stories

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a work of fiction based on my childhood memories growing up in a farming</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>village in Capul Island in Northern Samar Philippines. Most of the stories are</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>based on my own experiences and of the people I grew up with. So if the reader</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>could identify themselves in these pages I may have been inspired by them.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I have long wanted to document the colourful traditions of my hometown as I</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>have written them in my journals. I believe I have written a collective experience of</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>my people in these stories that took me several years to print.</span></p>