Ghosts of Infinity: and Nine More Stories of the Supernatural by Lara Saguisag & April Yap

Author:Lara Saguisag & April Yap [Saguisag, Lara & Yap, April]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9789719942047
Publisher: University of the Philippines Press and Flipside Publishing
Published: 2011-11-09T07:00:00+00:00

Street Corner

Carljoe Javier

SHE DIED WHEN she was fourteen. And she never got over it.

The red taxi, the headlights that were blind but flashed blindingly, the STOP sign flung from its pole, the pole left doubled over like a skinny man who’d just taken a punch to the gut: all these images flashed, slowed, spun, gone then back then meshed all together until they overlapped and then taken apart so that they could form a scene that placed me at the street corner staring out and lost in it and around it.

It was years since. But I always thought of it.

I’d grown up, was finishing school, doing everything that a normal kid was supposed to do. Except that I joined Katy’s vigil. She waited for him, and I went to meet her and waited with her.

On those nights I finished my dinner quickly and told my mom that I’d be staying out. I still lived in the neighborhood where we grew up together, where it happened. My mother worried about me at first, but she got used to the ritual, although she nagged me about meeting girls.

But every time I got started with a girl, she came back to me. She asked me to remember her, to stay with her until she found him. It’s the least I could do for her, she said, and I knew it. So I stayed, and I waited.

KATY SAID THE taxi was red. She’d find him.

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