By Romeo Esparrago. The Soviet Union detonates their first atomic test on August 29, 1949. Radioactive particles collected over the skies of Alaska confirm this. President Truman announces this to the world on September 23, 1949. Massachusetts, 1953. John V. “Jack” Herrentown had drawn an aircraft on the blackboard. Beneath it he had drawn a … Continue reading Story : Detection
A Rondo Patungan story from Romeo Esparrago Central Texas, January 2026 was sixteen days old when Emma brought her husband’s hat to my kitchen table in Austin while I was eating my bowl of sinigang stew & rice from Lil Mama’s in Round Rock. She put it beside my kalamansi juice and kept her hands … Continue reading Story : No Road Outta Taylor
The Hand That Welcomed By RomeDome. Etienne Aguinaldo had been called “Eighteen” since cadet school, though no one aboard the Fearnought remembered why. Some said he had been the eighteenth child in a sprawling Filipino-French family. Others said he had once survived eighteen minutes in an airlock whose seal had failed. Eighteen himself only shrugged … Continue reading The Hand That Welcomed
