Putting heartbreak to good use

A special announcement-invitation from my friends. Some people really have very creative ways of getting over heartbreak... pero, kailangan ba talagang isali pa kami? *lol*

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It started with love. It ended with pain. Now that the numbness has set in, let the experience blossom into print on pages that would utter the undying line "how-could-you-do-this-to-me" in more funny ways than one. And coming from a gay man's point of view, pepper those heartaches with a dash of wit and a pound of humor. Then, serve it fresh from the oven like the classic mammon, the pedestrian metaphor embodying our vulnerable and soft gay heart.

So as we ponder in lovelorn self-loathing at stumbling upon the wrong men, or mourning the right one that got away, be part of a book that will churn up the most sumptuous of gay experiences:

NANG MAHIWA ANG PUSONG MAMON Funny Essays and Poems on Gay Heartbreak

We now accept essays and poems to be anthologized in a book that will immortalize lessons in love, which both homos and heteros alike will find a delectable snack between pauses in life's journey. Please note, that even if we want our readers to know about the ways and means we have used to rise above the pain and aguish of being hurt, we also want them to smile (better yet, guffaw) at these funny essays and poems.

After all no matter how seemingly devastating gay heartbreaks can be, transcendence in the form of laughter (ours and theirs) can still emerge from the battlefields of failed relationships.

Please send contribution to this email address. Deadline for submission is on April 30th, 2006.

You write it. We print it. Let us all laugh at it. Then we can all move on.

Lots of love,

Ralph Semino Galan & G.S. Lloren Editors