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Oral Hystery
A viral trend of eating literal filth becomes the lens for everything we swallow online.
Classified: an allegory for the feed
DisinformationViralityCapitalismSmart-shaming
The Bibliography
Nine books. Twenty years of making you complicit.
Filed newest to oldest, across two publishing eras. Each title invents the form it needs. Hover a classified line to declassify it.
Avenida · Eskinita
The current run — corporate and political satire, sharpened to a scalpel.
02 / Exhibit A-02
Team Building
The staff of a snack-food giant are flown to a retreat. Only one of them comes back promoted.
Classified: the promotion is a body count
Corporate cultureLaborClassAmbition
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Strat Planning
Back at Philippine Nutrition Inc., where the aircon is Antarctic and the strategy is survival.
Classified: language that means nothing
Corporate cultureLanguagePower
Visprint
The back catalogue, from his old house Visprint (which became Avenida). Horror, YA noir, and the viral chat-thriller that started the socialserye.
04 / Exhibit A-04
Dirt
A privileged boy keeps a binder of everyone's secrets — and a double life to match.
Classified: a binder of everyone's sins
PrivilegeSecretsYouthPower
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Charged — Volume 1
A thriller told entirely in text threads — the Pinoy Black Mirror.
Classified: no one is watching
SurveillanceSocial mediaJusticeHuman frailty
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Wakasang Wasak
Wild and wonderful women in wicked situations — horror, the paranormal, and desire in Taglish.
Classified: where angels fear to dance
HorrorThe paranormalDesireWomen
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Crash
The party of the season, and the slower reckoning that surviving each other requires.
Classified: surviving each other
YouthStatusClassBelonging
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Roles
An exclusive school, a full cast of teenagers, and the roles image makes them all play.
Classified: the role image plays
ImageYouthIdentityClass
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Bloody Mary
The debut — where the satirist first learned to work in the dark.
Classified: where it all began
HorrorDebutThe taboo