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Feb 25

When trust is used against you: Social engineering attacks via social media

Grifting and conning people into parting with their hard-earned cash is a practice that is as old as the concept of currency itself. In a…

When trust is used against you: Social engineering attacks via social media

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Jun 3, 2024

Sea’s Reckoning

This story is dedicated to the brave soldiers manning the Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas Sierra Madre. Sending you soldiers the snappiest…

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Nov 8, 2023

Memory and Freedom, a new book

I wrote my first book into my mid-30s, a cookbook, and my first novel a few years after that. I am very happy to annonce that I have marked…

Memory and Freedom, a new book

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Sep 2, 2023

My mother, the swordsmith

Now that the scorch marks on the kitchen wall and ceiling are gone after several decades of seeing them daily, I am breathing easier and…

My mother, the swordsmith

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Aug 13, 2023

Fly by Night and Other Kilig

Got a story out in a new anthology under the #MitolohiyaPH series of 8Letters, the very productive Philippines-based publisher that also…

Fly by Night and Other Kilig

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Apr 27, 2023

Service as life, or, wala sila sa lolo ko

This is an editorial that was published in the Manila Standard on April 24, 1995, written by Amante Bigornia after a conversation between…

Service as life, or, wala sila sa lolo ko

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Mar 27, 2023

My grandfather, the barrio doctor

I wrote this tl/dr Facebook post three years ago, in the thick of the pandemic lockdowns in the Philippines. It came up in my memories on…

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Mar 18, 2023

Let’s talk about sex (scenes)

Saw a post on Twitter where someone was asking how to write a sex scene a few months back. That got me thinking about my process when I…

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Feb 2, 2023

Finally, available in the PHL

Writing a novel is not easy, but it is satisfying. In my case, writing my first complete novel — the actual first novel stalled at chapter…

Finally, available in the PHL

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Jan 27, 2023

River banks

Walked the banks Of your river Kids in tow. You walked unseen Beside us. I know.

Alma Anonas-Carpio

Alma Anonas-Carpio

Palanca winner (1994), Palanca judge (2001); treasurer, Filipino Critics Circle, judge in the National Book Awards. Journalist, cook, catmom, mother to twins.

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