On a Clear Day in November, Shortly Before the Millennium · Stories for a Quarter Century

What have children at play on a summer afternoon got to do with the future sorrows--and redemption--of a 17-year-old boy who no longer believes in God? What's so intriguing about the town mayor who doesn't seem to age, to change, despite years, and whose initials are similar to those of a deposed dictator? What does a wealthy widow about to emigrate to the US have in common with a female activist at a demo before the US Embassy? What makes Philip lapus hate his party hosts but love to drink the whisky of the bourgeoisie?

Is it St Paul's "last enemy" or something else the wartime hero turned advertising honcho confronts by a sea as dangerous as the ocean that once hid an American submarine? Is Romy Mangulbod's "Autobiography" simply the funniest spoof of Philippine writing ever written--as well as something more somber and profound about Philippine society and culture? How does "Project Maharlika" involve history, nationalism, dining tables, and crocodiles? ASide from a devastating flood, what do the rains bring Dr Caridad and his family in Fortune Village in Tarlac?

Come read and encounter such dramatic revelations as suggested above, and more--in these short fictions and novellas by Gregorio C. Brillantes.