Slice of Life

Liwanag sa Kusina

by Migs Ferrer

The kitchen wakes before the house does, and these stories keep it company — the 5:41 light, the rice sighing in the pot, the fifth plate set on the second of the month for a sister eleven years gone. Migs Ferrer's dawn vignettes serve small mercies warm: read one with your first coffee and try not to call your mother.