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  • Miniatures
  • Marlon Hacla (bio)
    Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim (bio)

My nightmares about betrayal have all come true, if possible, I would like to understand the nature of your room, I wish to place something inside the wardrobe closet. A small gift, as small as a jam jar of poison, as small as a loaded makeshift pistol that a toddler once used as a toy and resulted in many unforgettable lessons and one long funeral. I do not know how to defend you. I only want to talk about small things (about a bunch of keys, bullets, infants' socks, about chicks allowed to grow into chickens for the slaughter) and then to wake up to a good morning. [End Page 11]

Marlon Hacla

Marlon Hacla's first book, May Mga Dumadaang Anghel sa Parang (Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2010), was published as part of UBOD New Authors Series II. His second book, Glossolalia, was published by High Chair in 2013. He also released two chapbooks, Labing-anim na Liham ng Kataksilan (2014) and Melismas (2016). He lives in Quezon City, Philippines.

Kristine Ong Muslim

Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of nine books of fiction and poetry, including The Drone Outside (Eibonvale P, 2017), Black Arcadia (U of the Philippines P, 2017), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone P, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), Age of Blight (Unnamed P, 2016), and Lifeboat (U of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015). She is also the translator of two upcoming bilingual volumes of Marlon Hacla's work: Melismas (forthcoming from Oomph P) and There Are Angels Walking the Fields (forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books). Widely anthologized, Muslim's short stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Dazed Digital, Tin House, and World Literature Today. She grew up and continues to live in a rural town in southern Philippines.

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