Fiction • Aug 08, 2025 • 3 min read

Mahiwagang Bekeri

In the backstreets of Tondo, where the basketball court is always wet, the eatery has its own gossip playlist, and news travels faster than tricycles, Biboy Palupot grew up with a strange “talent” for finding money. A peso in the gutter, twenty on the street… and in the local bakery, it was like an ATM ghost kept dropping jackpots. But every legend has an ending. And sometimes, the magic you believe in has a much messier backstory. A tale of luck, mishaps, and how even in your own legend… you might just be a supporting character.