A reader's response (Lawrence L. Ypil)

"When I read the stories in this book, I feel like I am reading poems. Their movement reminds me of free verse poems, the line, measured, then forsaken, plot as a kind of movement from, movement to, lingering in bed in the morning, because there is still time. There is always time in the post-modern, post-colonial free-lance condition of the Philippine short story in English. Turn on the TV!"