Ghosts of Manila (2014)
“Dingca had attended his elder daughter’s High School Graduation. His best polyester slacks were growing tighter all the time, he had noted. Must watch that. Don’t want to start looking like Jun Santiago, the desk sergeant, who needed but snout and trotters. Part of the problem was having to shove a holstered pistol down his waistband. He had had a meeting first thing that morning with one of his ‘assets’, a transvestite informer named Babs, and had calculated things well enough to speed back to Laguna against the mid-morning traffic and sidle in at the back of the hall like a furtive schoolboy. Far away on a stage teenagers cut from sheet metal came and went, creased and ironed and shining with endeavour. Flags were saluted, anthems sung, stirring poems declaimed. Banners with golden fringes billowed gently to the delighted exhalations of hundreds of proud parents. Dingca stood and sweated and clapped with sudden force as Eunice stepped forward from the tin ranks, received her scroll ...with becomingly bowed head, moved away in a firestorm of flashbulbs with a demure swirl of knife-edged pleats.MoreLess
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