"SLICING THE ORCHID BEFORE THE TARGET FALLS"

I'm always grateful to see my books pick up new readers. SILK EGG was released in 2011 but just received a review--thanks to literature lover and high school teacher Aloysiusi Polintan for his engagement. You can see it HERE, but here's an excerpt:

A dialogue between a man and woman. A slice of breath released on the canvas. Wine swiveled in a decanter which light reflects on frescoes. An assortment of velvet red ribbons. There’s a lot more of these “beautiful mysteries” in reading Silk Egg, a compilation of novels that defy measures established by scribes incognizant of the beauty of brevity and the freedom in responding to art. If her poetry reverberates pulchritude in rhythm and restrictiveness, Tabios’s fiction challenges a novel’s typical length, proving that every line, space, and punctuation can speak of a narrative some writers’ unapologetic verbosity cannot provide in clarity and grandeur.