MARKANG BUWAYA
The following short fiction is inspired by the article from AswangProject about the traditional tattooing in Philippines called Pang-o-Tub. It was said that tattoo in pre-colonial Philippines was believe to endow strength who anyone who has it. You can view the article right in this link: https://www.aswangproject.com/pang-o-tub-the-traditional-philippine-tattooing-you-havent-heard-about/ ) Anton doesn’t like the smell and taste of blood. Especially if it is his own. With broken ribs, swelling eye and wheezing breath, perhaps the only thing that keeps him going is adrenaline against Dadong Damuho inside the audience. The audience’s blatant heckling didn’t even help either. Everyone is rooting for the towering six feet tall juggernaut with fist like sledge hammer pounding him to death. The other bad news is that round 3 is just starting. There is still a lot of minutes to clobber him. To humiliate him. Going for a brawl against Dado is an irrevocable death c...