Dream stories - Bobis, Melinda (Mandaluyong City Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2014)
Border lover -- An earnest parable. Before the moon rises -- The long siesta as a language primer -- Flores de may -- MacDo -- The curse -- The wind witch -- Pina and the flying cross -- The review -- Splinter -- Colours -- The kissing -- The sadness collector -- Shoes -- Frock -- Storm -- Fish-hair woman -- Jar -- Fruit stall -- White turtle -- Dream stories --
"This collection was first published as White Turtle (Spinifex, 1999, 2013; De La Salle University Press, 2000) and The Kissing (aunt lute, 2001). A number of these stories were originally published in Australian Short Stories, Heat, Hecate, Philippine Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Picador New Writing 4 and Southerly. And Earnest Parable was broadcast by ABC Radio National as one of the winners of its 1997 Books and Writing Short Story Competition; White Turtle has also won the 1998 Ashes Trans-Tasman Short Story Competition. The Kissing received the Judges' Choice Award at the Bumbershoot Bookfair, Seattle Arts Festival 200."--Acknowledgements.
Joint winner for Australia's Steele Rudd Award and the Philippine National Book Award for fiction.
Keywords: Short stories, Philippine (English)