REVIEW: “Armor: Stories” by John BenganPublished by BUGHAW (ADMU Press), 2022 CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 31 March)—In John Bengan’s world, as projected in the 13 short stories in this stunning antholog…
guards, street children and even ghosts. They are the scalawags, the scum of the earth thought of as worthless. The powers-that-be would deride them as completely without good qualities or even evil and are better disposed of so the rest of the population could “live in peace.” At the top of the list are drug pushers/users but also those who disturb society as in “the subversives.”
Of the nine stories dealing with extra-judicial killings, two narratives deal with children whose fathers were killed by hit men. In “,” a young girl named Racquel is taunted by the children in her neighborhood for having a father who is a “killer.” The father, who purportedly acted as hit man before he shifted to a job as driver of a garbage-collecting truck, eventually disappeared and presumed to have been summarily killed.
Kirk turned out to be someone Alex had met earlier when he rode a jeep. Kirk was with another young man, who was seated beside Alex, and was shot inside the jeep. Both Kirk and Alex were able to leave the crime scene. Eventually Kirk amassed a huge sum peddling drugs and with the loot, he was going to escape Davao as he feared for his life. He first went to meet his friend Toto, who he hoped would join him in leaving Davao City.
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