jude polotan

Rome by the Glass
by Jude Polotan
www.theexpeditioner.com

Poor Giordano Bruno. Ten years before Galileo would take the same stance, this former Dominican friar had the temerity to assert that the sun and not the Earth was the center of the universe, earning him a spot front and center in Rome’s Campo di’ Fiore, where he was burned at the stake.  [More]

The Early Bus to Baguio
by Jude Polotan
www.theexpeditioner.com

Barely seven in the morning, the Victory Liner bus jolts to a stop and the child-sized driver announces in an accent I can barely make out, “Five minutes!”

Ken wakes and shifts in his seat. He laughs at the sight of me huddled beneath clothes I retrieved from our bag and have draped around my shoulders and over my legs. In the Philippines, they like their air-conditioning set at meat locker.

“Stay here,” he says. “I’m going to use the bathroom.”

I nod, teeth chattering.  [More]

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