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Thursday Never Looking Back
an Anthology for the End of the World
2012
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THURSDAY NEVER LOOKING BACK is an eBook anthology that sought to gather, process, and perform various end-of-the-world scenarios, all to get at the core of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic narratives: the continuing survival of the human spirit against all odds, in all its messy, lovely, impermanent glory. Featuring works by Vince Torres, Kristoffer Berse, Julian de la Cerna, Dean Francis Alfar, Conchitina Cruz, Crystal Koo, Aser Peleg, Chiles Samaniego, Eliza Victoria, Mica Agregado, Rupert Bustamante, Alyza Taguilaso, Mark Anthony Cayanan, May Dy, Eva Gubat, Tilde Acuña, Ayer Arguelles, Mia Tijam, Fidelis Tan, Trizha Ko, Loh Guan Liang, Hillary Go, Kristine Ong Muslim, Michelle Esquivias, Ria Rigoroso, and Gerecho Iniel Cruz. NOTE: this anthology contains two comic book narratives that may not be very legible in Kindle devices. This eBook is DRM-free.

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Authors

Conchitina R. Cruz
Author · 6 books
Conchitina R. Cruz is Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman. She received her PhD in English from State University of New York (SUNY) Albany.
Tilde Acuña
Tilde Acuña
Author · 1 book
Tilde Acuña, author of Oroboro at Iba Pang Abiso (University of the Philippines Press, 2020), teaches at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature in the University of the Philippines Diliman. The illustrator of Marlon Hacla’s Melismas (Oomph Press, 2020), Acuña is a co-editor of Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy, 2021) and several other upcoming anthologies, including Signos: Anthology of 21st Century Filipino Fiction on Dark Lore and the Supernatural and Destination: SEA 2050 A.D.
Mark Anthony Cayanan
Mark Anthony Cayanan
Author · 2 books
Mark Anthony Cayanan was raised in Angeles City, Philippines. He has an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teacher at the Ateneo de Manila University.
Eliza Victoria
Eliza Victoria
Author · 17 books
Eliza Victoria is the author of several books including the Philippine National Book Award-winning Dwellers, the novel Wounded Little Gods, the graphic novel After Lambana (a collaboration with Mervin Malonzo), and the science fiction novel-in-stories, Nightfall. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several publications, most recently in LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction, The Dark Magazine, The Apex Book of World SF Volume 5, Fireside Fiction, and Future SF. She has won prizes in the Philippines’ top literary awards, including the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Her one-act plays (written in Filipino) have been staged at the Virgin LabFest at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
Author · 4 books
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles’s 19 books in Filipino include, among others, Walang Halong Biro (De La Salle University Publishing House, 2018), an edition of selected poems, Ang Iyong Buhay ay Laging Mabibigo (Ateneo de Naga University Press, 2016), and Talik, Antares, and Mujeres Públicas, a three-volume poetry series from Balangay Books. A recipient of multiple national awards and fellowships, two-time Philippine National Book Award finalist Arguelles is co-editor of the journal hal., works as a book editor, and teaches literature and creative writing at the De La Salle University. English translations (by Kristine Ong Muslim) of his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Asymptote, Circumference: Poetry in Translation, Construction Magazine, Fishhouse, Samovar, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Adirondack Review, The Cossack Review, Speculative Masculinities (UK: Galli Books, 2019), and The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism (Canada: Undertow Publications, 2018).
Kristine Ong Muslim
Kristine Ong Muslim
Author · 10 books
Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), Black Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), and several other books of fiction and poetry. She co-edited numerous anthologies of fiction, including Destination: SEA 2050 A.D. (Penguin Random House SEA, 2022), Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy, 2021), and the British Fantasy Award-winning People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! (2016). Her translation of Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III’s novel, Book of the Damned, won a 2023 PEN/Heim grant. She is also the translator of nine books by Filipino authors Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, Rogelio Braga, and Marlon Hacla. Widely anthologized, Muslim’s short stories were published in Conjunctions, Dazed, and World Literature Today and translated into Bulgarian, Czech, German, Japanese, Polish, and Serbian. She lives in a small farmhouse in Sitio Magutay, a remote rural highland area in Maguindanao, Philippines.
Guan Liang Loh
Guan Liang Loh
Author · 2 books

Loh Guan Liang is the author of the poetry collection Transparent Strangers (Math Paper Press, 2012) and the co-translator of Art Studio, originally written in Chinese by Singapore Cultural Medallion recipient Yeng Pway Ngon. He has had poems featured in various publications, including Crack the Spine (US), Kin Poetry Journal (US), Mascara Literary Review (Australia), Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Voices Israel, among others. Guan Liang is also the winner of Moving Words 2011, a Singapore poetry contest modelled after London's Poems on the Underground. His work has also been featured in the Singapore Memory Project and The Substation Love Letters Project.

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