Posts by Lynai

Story Review: Incarnations of Burned Children by David Foster Wallace

I had a hard time trying to finish this short story. Not because it was badly written or uninteresting. No, not at all. In fact, Incarnations…

Story Review: Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood

I have Margaret Atwood’s Blind Assassin and Surfacing on my to-be-read shelf for quite sometime now but haven’t gone ahead to reading them. It’s a…

Unlike other college students, I didn’t have the privilege of being enrolled in a Philippine Lit class while I was at the university. Or maybe I…

REFERENTIAL struck a chord in me. It made me teary-eyed and brought to light my worst fears and anxieties. In this story, a mother is visiting…

Happy new year! Each new year means a new start, a fresher look at things, and another opportunity to experience all that is good and wonderful…

It was a fine Sunday afternoon, and the sun was hot. Neddy Merrill was having a drink at the edge of a friends’s pool and it…

ROSELILY is the perfect example of why I have become a fan of short stories. It takes certain skill to weave an engaging tale in no…