Stories

Some mornings I wake up already inside my own head, and the day hasn’t even started yet. I live in Cebu, Philippines. My days follow a rhythm that looks simple from the outside: wake up early, eat breakfast, go to work, come home, rest. But inside that structure is something quieter and harder to name, […]

I don’t have a word for it yet. But I know what it feels like, standing in a kitchen in Cebu, folding something that didn’t grow up where I did. I live in Cebu, Philippines, where the heat arrives early and the smell of the ocean finds you even when you’re nowhere near it. Most

My ate didn’t tell me what to do. She just reminded me that I was allowed to choose. I’m Chloe, a nursing student from Cebu, Philippines. My days are long in the way that student life is long, early mornings, heavy requirements, and a quiet pressure that follows you even when you’re not studying.  When

I was lying in bed watching Grey’s Anatomy. I hadn’t done anything strenuous. And then, for no reason I could explain, I just couldn’t get up. I’m Charlotte. I’m a Filipina, and right now I’m living in Vietnam, though “right now” is always doing a lot of work in my sentences. My days are full