Beautiful Accidents: Stories

by Ian Rosales Casocot, Timothy R. Montes (Introduction )

In twelve stories collected from a decade of writing fiction, the much-awarded Dumaguete writer Ian Rosales Casocot attempts to rescue personal experience from the ephemera of travel and sexual limbo, and in the process makes his stories a fixative art, each one a grand evocation of style. "Beautiful accidents litter his stories, like glass shards from a collision...He uses language amorously, as a lover savors a kiss, so that passion becomes as real as the rhythm of his sentences," writes Timothy R. Montes of his collection of stories, where once proud fathers fade after the golden age of sugarcane in Negros, where mothers are fossilized in the celluloid memories of old movies, and where the very young play dangarous games as they hustle for sex, love, and attention in the small and weary world of university towns.

Genres: Short Stories

202 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2011

About the author

Ian Rosales Casocot has won the Don Carlos Palanca Award, the NVM Gonzalez Prize, and the Fully-Booked/Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic/Fiction Award for his fiction. He was a fellow for fiction in the national writers’ workshops in Dumaguete, Baguio, Cebu, and Iligan, and was a writer-in-residence for the International Writing Program in the University of Iowa. His books include FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures, which was nominated as Best Anthology in the National Book Awards given by the Manila Critics Circle; Old Movies and Other Stories; and Heartbreak & Magic: Stories of Fantasy and Horror. His novel Sugar Land was long-listed in the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize. He lives in Dumaguete City.

Reviews

[Ney Sarmiento · Rating 2 out of 5]

ahh.. i don't know. too many run-on sentences that i can't really understand it. i mean, i understand the words he used but as a whole, i can't! IT'S FOR GAYS. Don't take me wrong. I like gays. hehe

[Amiel Subingsubing · Rating 4 out of 5]

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