Exotic Seven: A collection of seven exotic short stories from the Philippine south

In the first story "San Rufo 1845", a native survivor of a Spanish galleon ship that was ravaged and sunk by fierce Moro warriors in the Davao Gulf in 1845, escaped and hid in a riverboat in Manila and hunted down by the Spanish trader Don Oyanguren who tried to persuade him to return to Davao to join his expedition to conquer that small river village called Dawaw"....... "Full Moon Over Mt Diwata" brings you to the rugged mountainous mining town of Diwalwal where a group of miners risk their lives digging for gold on a dangerous mountainside and got caught in a deadly landslide which opened a big mother lode of gold underneath...."Girl From Maguinda" follows a fish dealer who fought to keep his feelings for a girl, a maid who worked for his family in Butuan, northeastern Mindanao, who disappeared for months, but later turned up as a bar dancer in Manila..... "Imagine" shows you what happens when a boy who goes to work daily by commuter train encounters the same girl many times, without knowing each other, that the boy keeps imagining how it would be if he finally opens up to her..... "The Spinster's Dog" is about a group of friends who went out dancing the whole night, ending up with one of the three guys, getting so drunk and had to be taken home to one of the girls' apartment, a pretty spinster who have a black dog that easily gets turned on by girl's legs..... "Catfish at Malvar" is about my childhood living at Malvar street in Davao where my friends and I had an encounter with a girl who beat us all catching catfish. Years later a woman who worked in a massage parlor turned out to be the same girl who caught catfish...... "The Apartment" follows a man who left his unfaithful wife and family and went to live in the city where he met his niece, a sales lady in a department store, who along with three others prodded him to get an apartment for them, but later left them on their own after one of the girls he learned to love, went away with another man.....