Ryan Leyco Faura

But this delicate balancing act is not without the gravity of falling as most of these students have been failing their subjects due to noncompliance. We even have a specific term for it: SARF or Students At Risk of Failing as if assigning them labels wrangles them out from the trend. And teachers, as paragons of virtue and fairness and second chances, have to go the extra mile, literally and figuratively, to coax these students back to their Google Classrooms.

On the morning my sister's cat, Esme, went missing, we were as frantic as the Greek king Sisyphus moments after receiving his boulder.

#2gether, my default favorite amongst the cornucopia of BL series, takes a grain of salt and tequila to go with it. It updates the genre paying homage to erstwhile hits and still checks the same boxes.

Sa huli, tanging mga alon ko ang nagdala sa kanya pabalik sa akin pero hindi rin napigil nito ang pusong nais nang kumawala.

I lit the candle and in it came wisps of thin smoke; it sketched characters in an unseen parchment. Could have been paragraphs of love, or regret.

Her mouth smirked like irritated emoji. Her eyebrows stretched like unkempt bushy undergrowth.

Peeling posters of elections’ past and present, superficial politicking, once so vibrant, with promises and possibilities in printed Technicolor, had faded into the concrete wall, empty words in iridescent fonts.

She looked like she came out of fashion editorial, and fronted us, or at least me, with a smile so fake, Louis Vuitton enterprises sold at Divisoria will crawl.

This is for the man who kissed me virtually, sent me love struck emojis and floating heart balloons on Messenger yet these feelings of acrimony vanished into thin air and into the dusting motes of the early morning rays in my room.

Your train of concentration is suddenly derailed, and instead of launching into your lesson with vivacity, you mellow down to just getting it done so you can go home and lock your door and not eat for hours.