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I send my mother 1.5 million pesos monthly for my postpartum wife. Coming home early, I found my wife eating spoiled rice with fish heads. Furious, I confronted my mom, who sneered, “She doesn’t deserve better.” Then, I checked the family safe and found…

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paralyzed my lungs.

At the bottom of the bowl lay a coagulated mass of grayish, days-old rice, fused together in hardened, stinking lumps. Violently mixed into this decay were the grotesque remnants of a fish carcass. Hollowed-out fish heads with clouded, dead eyes stared back at me. Jagged, dangerous splinters of bone, translucent scales, and gelatinous continue reading …

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