Archie Daguinod

A public hospital serves as a witness to a young boy’s rite of passage when he is stuck to take care of his ailing father. Caught in a place where life itself is in limbo, the boy treats the hospital grounds as his playground, not knowing that it will be his source of liberation in the end.

Two brothers accompany a group of vloggers on their search for a mythical island. But when they find it, they uncover one sinister secret after another.

A group of transgender women belonging to a gang kidnaps foreign men to fund their gender-affirming surgeries, not knowing that their quest to free themselves to be who they are may end with them in prison.

The childhood memories of the author, from his earliest days as a student until his first few years at work.