Mona, je t'aime

a few months ago i learned a few months too late that the Philippine Free Press had published a story i wrote called Screws. Sarge Lacuesta confirmed that, yes, he had published it, and asked, when will i send him another...? so i sent him a relatively fresh story called The Nameless.

you can read The Nameless in the Philippine Free Press, Vol. 99, No. 29, dated July 19, 2008. (the Free Press have a website, http://philippinesfreepress.wordpress.com/, but you won't find the story there.)

i'm tickled by the preponderance of 9s, without really knowing why. that may be a clue to the kind of silliness that gave birth to The Nameless, which, for all its unworthy seriousness and freakish self-importance, was really something of a joke i was playing on my inner misanthrope (which is discernibly if only slightly more misanthropic than the outer one).

it was meant to be funny. really it was. not ha-ha funny, but funny in its own, unnameable (har) way.

thanks to Paul for the heads-up.