Losing

By Narciso Madera Aguilar

Meeting by chance, Bob and Beth conversed with each other. Here's an excerpt of what they said--

“I never expected it’s you. In fact, I couldn’t have imagined we’ll meet this way and at this unexpected moment,” Bob opened the conversation.
“I was searching for some guests to interview and asked my friend, an executive in this hotel, who are the persons of consequence, their guests, desirous of being portrayed in the media. VIPs, politicians, entertainers, artists, etcetera. All the celebrities I could get,” she responded.
“I’m neither of those in your list.”
“I know you’d say that,” she chuckled. “Your nature had always been like that.”
“Why do you solicit them?” Bob became inquisitive.
“I’m a media person now, connected with a local tabloid as feature writer,” she replied.
“That’s how you earn a living?”
“How would I, do you think?”
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“I saw your name in the hotel list sandwiched between two celebrities,” she continued.
“What an inadvertence,” and for the fist time Bob found a reason to come up with a smile.
Appreciating that, the woman commented: “You’ll always retain that handsome image, Bob, if you don’t give up a smile.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Narciso Madera Aguilar
• Release date: Mar 6, 2011

Narciso Madera Aguilar

The author, 59 years of age, now resides in Iloilo City, Philippines, where he is a member of the Sumakwelan, an organization of vernacular writers from the Western Visayan region and portions of Mindanao Island in the Philippines. His works include several titles in non-fiction and some in fiction and poetry. He has been engaged in vernacular writing in his country since he was a teen-ager. The author taught Remedial Law at Aklan College in Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines prior to 2007 and has since resettled in Iloilo City, Philippines. Likewise,he has been engaged in the advocacy of law in the Philippines.

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Losing

A Work of Fiction

By

Narciso Madera

Aguilar

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Losing

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IT was a foggy morning when Philippine Airways Flight 831 touched down at Cabatuan Airport in Panay Island. The chill that Bob Madrid felt in spite of the brown Corsican jacket which he wore all through the flight from Manila, lasting about an hour, was due to the foreboding storm approaching the direction of Borongan, Samar Island that morning, three islands away from Panay.

He hailed a taxicab upon exit from the arrival zone and half an hour later, he was already approaching the downtown area of the city of Iloilo.

After they had negotiated the lengthy Aquino Boulevard, the driver remarked to Bob that they were already in the heart of the city and that he was free to choose which of the hotels would be his temporary abode in the meantime that he was whiling away his days in this part of the country. He thought of checking in at the City Manor but in an instant he altered his preference.

Take me to Molo, he ordered the driver. Aquino Boulevard traversed the district of Mandurriao and wound up in Molo.

The taxi veered to the right upon reaching General Luna Highway and revved toward the south, the city’s remote district where the Riverside Inn stood as an imposing structure.

Fifteen minutes later,