Tomás – Popi Laudico

Tomás

Tomás
The Journal of the UST Center for Creative Writing and

Literary Studies

Volume 3 Issue 2, 2019-2020

Tomás is a refereed journal published by the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies

ISSN: 0119-7908

"At some point between the 2 positive cases in January and the 491,258 thousand in December, we all had reached our existential thresholds and had asked ourselves, “what is the point?” 2020 had worn us down to the bare necessities of life, and we had asked ourselves what the point was of everything that had nothing to do with food, shelter, or face masks. Finding no answer, some of us slipped into either ennui, or… escape. But most of us chose to plod on, and navigate the new nearapocalyptic world we now live in. Which is why this issue of Tomas exists. A journal for literature and literary commentary will not save us from a global pandemic; but now, more than ever, we need stories that will remind us about how to be human."

— Dawn Laurente Marfil & Paul Alcoseba Castillo

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Contributed Memoir

An Edge Between

pages 78-79

“An Edge Between” by Popi Laudico is an unusual memoir, which begins with her baby mouth and a tooth, and how they lead to a childhood filled with quietness. This quietness pervades the essay, even as it takes us to bazaars, introduces us to yellow Labradors, to love for a much younger man, and and to dancing the tango with a Columbian in Japan. Laudico takes us deeper into her psyche as her narratives grow longer. Her memoir ends with a magical dive in Donsol, with a majestic creature of the deep, and later, the drive back to Manila, to the Chainsmokers and Coldplay’s “Something Just Like This” on repeat.

— Dawn Laurente Marfil &

Paul Alcoseba Castillo