There is evil at work in Payatas. It is 1997: The mutilated bodies of dead young boys—with no faces, vital organs and genitals—are being found in this refuge for refuse.
IT ALL began as an innocuous file on Maria Felisa H. “F.H.” Batacan’s computer. It was a story she was writing, something different and dark, away from her job at an intelligence agency.
BOOKS were big in 2015, with Filipinos visiting bookstores and buying titles at a healthy rate. Coloring books sparked a buying frenzy for both the black-and-white books and coloring tools.
WHEN F.H. Batacan’s novel “Smaller and Smaller Circles” first arrived on bookshelves in 2002, the book was clearly special. Originally published by the University of the Philippines Press, it was
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