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Mahogany Water

By Migs Villanueva | September 17, 2006 - 12:00am

(First Prize, Short Story, 2006 Palanca Awards) Julian has had so many pets die on him (hamsters, fish, a spider, a bird) that I worried he, only eight, might think life so inordinately flimsy, full of sad surprises:...

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