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7 Nov 2024 5 minute read 0 comments OogaBooga
The Manila Film Center, an ambitious project initiated by former 1st lady Imelda Marcos, is steeped in tragedy and controversy. Completed in a rushed timeline for the 1982 Manila International Film Festival, the center became the site of a horrific a...
20 Jan 2024 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Smiling as he climbs aboard his two decades old, powder blue Honda Goldwing motorcycle, Lenny rolls down the short gravel drive, and waits until he’s on the street before firing up the engine. The roommates at this house where he’s been stayin...
4 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The main building has four bedrooms, all in a row on the northern side of the second floor. These were originally reserved for the kitchen staff, but in the absence of such, apart from Chef Jen, three fourths of them went unclaimed. Then Gr...
3 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“Man, your timing could not be better!” Lenny had marveled, when Jeremy called him, not even 24 hours after losing his construction gig. “Yeah, he already agreed to it, on the spot,” Jeremy explains, “not that it really took much convincing...
2 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“I need this!” Kay screams, hands out and fingers raised as if about to claw her mother. “I fucking NEED this, and YOU already agreed to it!” Emily and Denise are on their way over right now, this morning of their scheduled departure. Every...
31 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
toy collection at an artists’ retreat “Lenny! Get over here!” the foreman, Bob Griffin, barks at him from across the muddy expanse of their work site. Rivet gun in hand, Lenny was en route to the makeshift elevator, which would take him t...
29 Dec 2023 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Approximately ten minutes after leaving the art institute, they arrive in the nearest sleepy hamlet all over again, gliding down a gentle curve to the southwest, crossing one state route, before nearing the Fairlawn Diner. Apart from one na...
26 Dec 2023 24 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“Does anyone want to write a letter to the president?” the girl in the window asks. “Uh…,” says Denise, while Jeremy just chuckles and smirks. “Sure!” Emily enthuses, however, and ventures a few steps closer. “Always eager to please,” Denis...
24 Dec 2023 4 minute read 1 comment jasonmcgathey
Sometimes Kay resents the relationship Emily has with her parents. Well, not resent, exactly, more like it fills her with profound sadness, and leads to bouts of fantasy when contemplating the situation over here. She often wonders how di...
23 Dec 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Doll tornado in an artists’ retreat Emily is uncertain about a great deal concerning her background. By all rights, she should probably be one of the snobbish popular girls. And even as things have always stood, most would probably agree...
