TY - BOOK AU - De Mesa, Karlos R., TI - Damaged people: tales of the Gothic-punk SN - 9715425046 AV - PS 9993.D3493 .D18 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Quezon City PB - University of the Philippines Press KW - Short stories, Philippine (English) KW - sears N2 - Ghosts, monsters, the hearts of men-welcome to their underworld. A land covered by the umbra of gothic darkness, populated by the tragically hip, stomping to a brutal punk soundtrack. Here are ten short stories that show how people answer the damage sustained from horrors both real and supernatural. These tales also reveal the beauty in enduring or escaping such injury. Written in a cross between the fury of a heat wave and cold sincerity, Damaged People gathers the wretch, the fragile, the damaged, and the dead into one incandescent read. This book also includes the short novel New Wilderness (U.P. Press) ER -