After a tentative start date of June 1, 2024, my much anticipated debut novel, Below, will be available for pre-order for the next six months via Asylum Art Press, Inc. This will make January 1, 2025 the book’s official release date. Announcements will continue to be made regarding possible changes with schedule, besides any Goodreads Giveaways or other promotional activity. The book is currently in pre-production phase and changes in schedule are not entirely unlikely. However, Asylum Art Press will make every effort to slot the pre-order period between June to December of 2024, when reviews ..read more

I’m posting all my reviews of other authors’ books on Goodreads and Amazon, but I’m also boosting them on my WordPress blog and Twitter. Here is the round-up of Goodreads reviews by me so far: –<>– Samantha Kolesnik – Waif (Grindhouse Press) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4716316857?book_show_action=false Alan Baxter – Served Cold (Grey Matter Press) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4235156941?book_show_action=false Nathan Ballingrud – Wounds, Six Stories Along the Border of Hell (Saga Press) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4209866816?book_show_action=false&from_rev ..read more

If you’ve reached this blog, you’ve heard about me at some point. People will speculate since many people have varied opinions about me, and since I’m an ambivert and closely guarded to most. Here are my three tidbits that readers have to know. “I make no qualms about my looks… or my books.” My favorite writer in the ’90s was Poppy Z. Brite, and my favorite book was ‘Wormwood.’ – I was sixteen back in 1996 when I first found the book in the horror section of National Book Store in Greenhills, San Juan City, Philippines. I eagerly read it when I got home, and the impact through the years still ..read more

If my Twitter has made any indication, I have many fiction titles in the pipeline to rob you writers blind of your publishing spaces (hehe). And for all the fans, more horror and weirdness to sate your hunger. You see, with Il Migliore Del Mondo & Other Stories, I left a lot on the table for future accomplishments. The difference is a notably more polished narrative, a more authentic Filipino voice, and a slew of horror tropes reinterpreted or discovered… and I’m only getting started. It starts with three new novels, one still under wraps. All three look really good to me, but I hope you w ..read more

Hello everyone. This first announcement covers some of the basics. I’m launching a career writing fiction in the horror genre, posting news and announcements here and on social media. I’m also on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram (Please see the links on the site). Otherwise, if they led you to this blog, then great. Welcome again. I hope you come often. The site has been refreshed, but it’s a basic layout. Since I’m from Manila, Philippines, not everyone accessing this site will have fast download speeds. A lack of flashiness has its advantages. I’m also working on freelancing as a web designer ..read more

AWAKE A poem about ‘lucid dreaming’ By Alaric Cabiling I love many lovers for I dream AWAKE. It is called lucid dreaming. Without dreams, life is meaningless; reality never manifests; goals are never consummated. If you spend too much time in dreams, reality ceases to ground tangible experience. Without substance to provide sensory experience, life will cease to be real, and will thusly, remain illusory. For how can I learn to love, if not love blindly, as though a dream of a perfect partner were not mere fantasy, and love such a partner as though they were, in fact, real. Without sublimation ..read more

Hotel Insomnia has been relaunched on Amazon Kindle. It is currently available for $0.99 Please see the link below to read a sample from the collection. The synopsis reads as follows: Hotel Insomnia is comprised of five stories exploring the darker side of the human condition. Fans of psychological fiction and suspense will find this terse, morose, and oftentimes dark and contemplative collection of stories difficult to forget. Hotel Insomnia begs to be read–check yourself in. Five men in the MI-5 determine that a mole is working stealthily amongst them. An old man too jaded about the world ..read more

5.0 out of 5 stars What The Body Artist lacks in popularity, it does not lack in merit. Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2020 Format: Paperback Short Novels or Novellas have made quite a comeback these past four or five years. Classic fiction abounded with examples of the short novel—from Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice to Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw—indeed, short novel landmarks in the literary landscape will always resonate. Don Delillo’s own example of the short novel, The Body Artist, might not prove as noteworthy an example in some people’s eyes, owing to its relative ..read more

The poem, ‘SLEEP’, taken from THE DARKEST DAY REVISITED Selected Poems from 2009’s The Darkest Day and new poems. To want. To crave. The rapture of resting One’s limbs amiably In the shade. The hope of a bottle cast upon the pitiless Wave. The journey ends Where it begins. The amnesty of sleep. A raft forsaken to the sea of escape. A summer’s dream mourns the turn Of the fall. Or else nothing at all, And suddenly One finds himself awake. — Coming Soon! — #Amazon #Kindle #POEM #POEMS #poetrywriter #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity ..read more

Have you ever looked back at a forlorn lover with tears in your eyes, years after you’d left her behind? Do you find yourself mourning her fate so intensely that you’ve considered disinterring memories so deep, you could go insane? Look no further. An incorrigible bachelor cannot look into Narcissus’ pool and see the truth beneath deception–the shriveling tissues of a hideous affliction beneath the illusion of beauty. The stories ‘CAUSE OF DEATH’, and ‘THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE’, from… REDEFINING DARKNESS Stories. Enter darkness redefined. Coming Soon on #Amazon Coming Soon ..read more