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The Digest of Philippine Genre Stories: Special Crime Issue
Less Talk, Less Mistake by Xin Mei
God Is The Space Between by Maryanne Moll
Grenadier by Dominique Cimafranca
The Last Time I Saw Uncle Freddie by Crystal Koo
Blogcaster by Alexander Osias
The Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, or PGS for short, is a publication which features genre short-fiction by Pinoys. "Genre" means that the stories in PGS can be classified under crime, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror, and everything in between. It's an indie-publication which contains between 5 to 6 genre tales each issue.
God Is The Space Between by Maryanne Moll
Grenadier by Dominique Cimafranca
The Last Time I Saw Uncle Freddie by Crystal Koo
Blogcaster by Alexander Osias
The Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, or PGS for short, is a publication which features genre short-fiction by Pinoys. "Genre" means that the stories in PGS can be classified under crime, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror, and everything in between. It's an indie-publication which contains between 5 to 6 genre tales each issue.
73 pages, Digest
First published January 1, 2011
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About the author
F.H. Batacan
3 books192 followersMaria Felisa H. Batacan is a Filipino journalist and a writer of crime and mystery fiction. Her work has been published in the Philippines and abroad under the name F.H. Batacan.
She was a fellow at the 1996 Dumaguete National Writers' Workshop.
Batacan worked in the Philippine intelligence community and then became a broadcast journalist. She attended the University of the Philippines, where she pursued a master's degree in Arts Studies. In 1999 her manuscript, Smaller and Smaller Circles, won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Grand Prize for the English Novel. This novel was published in 2002 by the University of the Philippines Press. Although most Filipino English-language fiction works garner a single print run of only 1,000 copies,Smaller and Smaller Circles had been reprinted four times by the year 2006, for a total of 6,000 copies. The novel was one of the first Filipino works of crime fiction.
The novel also won the 2002 Manila Critics’ Circle National Book Award and the Madrigal-Gonzales Best First Book Award in 2003.
In 2008, she won 1st prize in the English short story category of the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards.
She was a fellow at the 1996 Dumaguete National Writers' Workshop.
Batacan worked in the Philippine intelligence community and then became a broadcast journalist. She attended the University of the Philippines, where she pursued a master's degree in Arts Studies. In 1999 her manuscript, Smaller and Smaller Circles, won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Grand Prize for the English Novel. This novel was published in 2002 by the University of the Philippines Press. Although most Filipino English-language fiction works garner a single print run of only 1,000 copies,Smaller and Smaller Circles had been reprinted four times by the year 2006, for a total of 6,000 copies. The novel was one of the first Filipino works of crime fiction.
The novel also won the 2002 Manila Critics’ Circle National Book Award and the Madrigal-Gonzales Best First Book Award in 2003.
In 2008, she won 1st prize in the English short story category of the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards.
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September 16, 2025
I love these stories and I want more!
I'll try not to spoil too much since these are short.
"Less Talk, Less Mistake" by Xin Mei - ★★★★★
This is about three generations of women in a Chinese-Filipino family, and about keeping things inside. I loved the message about the importance of speaking up.
"God Is The Space Between" by Maryanne Moll - ★★★★★
This is about a wife who experiences a strange feeling...that isn't menopause. This brought a new perspective about the crime involved. I loved the explanation of the title.
"Grenadier" by Dominique Cimafranca - ★★★★
Kidnappings are happening. I liked the narrative style used here.
"The Last Time I Saw Uncle Freddie" by Crystal Koo - ★★★★.5
A woman looks for her "uncle" in Hong Kong. Another one with an interesting narrative style.
"Blogcaster" by Alexander Osias - ★★★.5
This is about the dangers that journalists face. This has an important message, but I thought the formatting could have been improved to make the different "blog posts" clearer.
Will definitely keep an eye out for these authors and their other works.
I'll try not to spoil too much since these are short.
"Less Talk, Less Mistake" by Xin Mei - ★★★★★
This is about three generations of women in a Chinese-Filipino family, and about keeping things inside. I loved the message about the importance of speaking up.
"God Is The Space Between" by Maryanne Moll - ★★★★★
This is about a wife who experiences a strange feeling...that isn't menopause. This brought a new perspective about the crime involved. I loved the explanation of the title.
"Grenadier" by Dominique Cimafranca - ★★★★
Kidnappings are happening. I liked the narrative style used here.
"The Last Time I Saw Uncle Freddie" by Crystal Koo - ★★★★.5
A woman looks for her "uncle" in Hong Kong. Another one with an interesting narrative style.
"Blogcaster" by Alexander Osias - ★★★.5
This is about the dangers that journalists face. This has an important message, but I thought the formatting could have been improved to make the different "blog posts" clearer.
Will definitely keep an eye out for these authors and their other works.
Displaying 1 of 1 review