Upon our own ground : Filipino short stories

lovers and children

old and lonely people, social outcasts (the town idiot)

social gatherings and festivities (fiestas, processions, carnivals rallies)

supernatural beings (fairies, ogres, ghosts)

the Chinese)

the common tao-fishermen, farmers, jeepney drivers, squatters, beggars, neighborhood toughies

the cultural or ethnic minority (Igorot, Mangyan, Tausug

the middle class and the elite or upper class ( landowners, teachers, politicians)

war (the revolution against Spain, the Filipino American War, the Japanese occupation) and death.

we shall endure. The two volumes are one whole: a kind of tapestry or kaleidoscope-various patterns and pictorial designs, so to speak, depicting rural and urban landscapes

This two-volume historical anthology of our short stories in English bears the title, Upon Our Own Ground, as to say: This is how we Filipinos live, is the way we think and feel about our reality, our world. We stand upon our own ground