Short Works

A complete list of published work, both prose and poetry.

You may also find an expanded bibliography (pdf) here.

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• Fiction
• Essays/Creative Nonfiction
• Poetry

A house without gravity could never stay intact. Ours struggled for two months before it fell apart. All that time the war raged on: sometimes silently, sometimes viciously. Until they had dropped all their bombs and radiation made the air so thick. I could no longer imagine it ever having been filled with anything light, like laughter. Or love.

A Firsthand Account of the End of the World, Dominic Dayta

Fiction

2025

• “Kaysa Makalimutan.” (trans: Instead of Forgetting) Liwayway. (Buy at Shopee.)

2024

• “Vicious Animals”. Locked Down, Lit Up: An Anthology of Creative Work in a Time of Quarantine. Eds: DNG Parrocha, JV Ogatis-I, and CC Sy Su. UP Press. (Print Only. Buy at Shopee.)
• “Ang Sanlibong Mga Sikulo Ni Mikha Salcedo.” (trans: The One Thousand Cycles of Mikha Salcedo) Self-published.

2023

• “Lila Ang Kulay ng Paglisan.” (trans: Purple is the Color of Leaving) Liwayway. (Print Only. Buy at Shopee.)

2022

• “Game Show.” Tapuzine.

2021

• “Wednesday Girl.” Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.

2020

• “Carla.” The Brasilia Review.
• “Uncountable Infinites.” Five on the Fifth.
• “Mean, Median, Mode.” Literally Stories.
• “The Process.” (Self-published. Recipient of the 2017 Amelia Lapena-Bonifacio Literary Prize, 2nd prize for the short story.)

2019

• “Mga Kalapating Papel.” (trans: Paper Pigeons) Liwayway. (Print Only)
• “A Firsthand Account Of The End Of The World.” The Brasilia Review.
• “A Flowchart For The Queen.” Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.
• “The Girl In The Ticket Booth.” Philippines Graphic†.

2017

• “Unang Ulan Ng Hunyo.” (trans: The First Rain of June) Liwayway. (Read an online reprint here.)
• “Isang Kuwento Ng Pag-Ibig.” (trans: A Story of Love) Liwayway. (Print Only)
• “The Empty Northern Hemisphere.” Philippines Graphic†. REPRINT: Business Mirror.

2016

• “Prinsesa.” TAYO Literary Magazine. (Print Only)
• “Jezra.” Liwayway. (Print Only)

2015

• “How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Husband.” Philippines Graphic. (Print Only)
• “Floyd and Meredith Forever.” The Brasilia Review.
• “Time: From The Perspective of a Wristwatch.” Panorama.

No, they will praise my oppressors. They will shower laurels at his feet and proclaim him hero. Because it’s never just politics. Your vote represents a kernel of your moral code and what you will and will not stand for.

Father You Have Sinned, Dominic Dayta

Essays / Creative Nonfiction

2022

• “Father, You Have Sinned.” Young Blood: Philippine Daily Inquirer.

2021

• “My Youth’s Soundtrack.” REPRINT: Young Blood Omnibus: Volume Two. Eds: RS De Vera, RA Garcellano, P Pastor & JVD Rufino. (Print Only: via Inquirer Books.)

2017-2018

• “Japan: The Nation of Vending Machines.” Cold Noon†.
• “My Youth’s Soundtrack.” REPRINT: Young Blood 6. Eds: RS De Vera, RA Garcellano, P Pastor & JVD Rufino. (Print Only: via Inquirer Books)

2013-2015

• “Chilling Effect.” Philippine Collegian.
• “My Youth’s Soundtrack.” Young Blood: Philippine Daily Inquirer.
• “Memory and Hereafter.” Young Blood: Philippine Daily Inquirer.
• “End of the Line: Probing Into the LRT Line 1 Privatization Deal.” Philippine Collegian.
• “Ode to Marcelo H. Del Pilar’s Moustache.” Definitely Filipino†.
• “Odysseus Commutes Metro Manila.” Definitely Filipino†.
• “An Amazona In Manila.” Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Poetry

2021-2022

• “Mga Awit Ng Paglisan.” Liwayway. (Print Only. Buy at Shopee or Lazada.)
• “Pamamaalam Ng Isang Biyahero.” Liwayway.
• “Sa Hele Ng Takipsilim.” Self Published.

Notes:

† Website has since shutdown / link is no longer available.