The Aeta are the original people of the Philippines and they tell the country’s oldest stories. Despite this, there are not many stories about them. Sadly, this is a reflection of how neglected they are by modern society.
This week’s mystery post on #whereghostwordsdwell features an Aeta mother and her unborn child.
There are many secrets buried in the text and the empty spaces between words. See if you can find them all.
Picture from the blog “A Crucial Flight“
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Published by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo is a Singapore-based Filipino writer. He is the author of The Infinite Library and Other Stories (Math Paper Press, 2017) and Here be Dragons (Canvas Press, 2015), which won the Romeo Forbes Children’s Story Award in 2012.
His writing has appeared in many publications including Apex Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Likhaan Journal, Strange Horizons, Philippine Graphic, Science Fiction World and The Quarterly Literature Review of Singapore, as well as anthologies like The Best New Singapore Short Stories, Fish Eats Lion: New Singaporean Speculative Fiction, Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, Maximum Volume: Best New Philippine Fiction, and the Philippine Speculative Fiction series.
Visit his blog at vrocampo.com or follow him on Twitter @VictorOcampo
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