Subversive Lives. Susan F. Quimpo

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14. Choral Singing Behind Barbed Wire

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       15. In the Glare of Photo Lamps

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       16. Fugitive

      DAVID RYAN F. QUIMPO

       17. A World Apart

      EMILIE MAE Q. WICKETT

       18. The Doña Andrea-FB Elvie Affair

      NORMAN F. QUIMPO

       19. Lillian

      SUSAN F. QUIMPO

       20. Awit sa Kasal (Wedding Song)

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO AND MARIA CRISTINA PARGAS-BAWAGAN

       PART IV: Outside Manila: White Areas and Guerrilla Fronts

       21. White Areas

      DAVID RYAN F. QUIMPO

       22. Sunog! Wildfire!

      LILLIAN F. QUIMPO AND SUSAN F. QUIMPO

       23. Hot and Cold

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       24. Last Rites

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO, DAVID RYAN F. QUIMPO, AND SUSAN F. QUIMPO

       25. In the Cult of the Father

      EMILIE MAE Q. WICKETT

       26. Where’s Jun? Where’s Jan?

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       27. Letters from the Red Zone

      SUSAN F. QUIMPO, MARIA CRISTINA PARGAS-BAWAGAN, AND JUN F. QUIMPO

       28. Reality Check

      EMILIE MAE Q. WICKETT

       29. Diwa

      SUSAN F. QUIMPO

       PART V: Escape and Defiance

       30. Departure

      DAVID RYAN F. QUIMPO

       31. A Warm Davao Welcome

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       32. Pondering Insurrection

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       33. Globe Steel

      SUSAN F. QUIMPO

       34. Like There Was No Tomorrow

      SUSAN F. QUIMPO

       35. Asylum

      DAVID RYAN F. QUIMPO

       36. Boycott Unless

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       37. Welgang Bayan! (People’s Strike!)

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       38. Press Conference in a Guerrilla Zone

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       39. Puto Bongbong

      DAVID RYAN F. QUIMPO

       PART VI: Endgame

       40. Debate

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       41. An Encounter with the CIA

      NATHAN GILBERT QUIMPO

       42. The End of a Revolution

      DAVID RYAN F. QUIMPO

       Aftermath

      THE SIBLINGS

       Acronyms and Abbreviations

       Annexes

      PART I

      IN THE SHADOW OF THE PALACE

      Lantern Parade

      1

      SUSAN F. QUIMPO

      December 1981

      I HAD TO GO to school. I clutched thick folders to my chest, wrapping both arms around them. There was no need for my notes that day, but I felt I had to hold on to something, even if it was only folders stuffed with notes for a test I had taken days ago.

      It was the last day of school before the three-week Christmas break. A few exams were scheduled, but these were the exception. Even the faculty were lenient, for they too were excited about the biggest university event of the year, the evening’s Lantern Parade.

      The college theater group I belonged to had a good shot at winning first prize. Ramonlito, the group’s artist, had designed a six-foot lantern; its thick cardboard frame was to take the shape of a pyramid, or in keeping with the season, a Christmas tree. But as always, the group was bent on making a statement, and the well-attended Lantern Parade was the perfect venue.

      The lantern’s black frame would be scored into a template of cutout human forms, and red cellophane would be stretched underneath this cardboard scaffold. It was to be mounted on bamboo poles and lit from within, casting crimson shadows of quivering human forms. From top to bottom, the lantern would be covered with faces of society’s


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