The Vanishing Island and Other Stories

This is a work of fiction based on my childhood memories growing up in a farming

village in Capul Island in Northern Samar, Philippines. Most of the stories are

based on my own experiences and of the people I grew up with. So if the reader

could identify themselves in these pages, I may have been inspired by them.

I have long wanted to document the colourful traditions of my hometown as I

have written them in my journals. I believe I have written a collective experience of

my people in these stories that took me several years to print.