My eyes open and I hear the sound of the sea in a shell. The garbled static of water in my ears. There is no dream to remember this morning. I reach for my phone to to turn down the volume of the Spotify rain playlist. The pattering of water on roofs is coming from […]

Power tools grind in the distance, over the fenceline a three-storey house is being repaired or torn down. I’m not sure, the scaffolding seems suspicious, but at least my countrymen are slight. It’ll hold. The small house by the way is blaring TV or radio in a language I don’t understand. It’s loud white noise. […]

I come with a humble heart. I think. It’s definitely not broken which is a novelty. The right wing of the aeroplane dips, the pilot manoeuvring us around the Peninsula- Zamboanga del Sur. The pilot is better at flying than landing. But, still capable. The passengers, flight crew and your brave petite heroine have not […]