Lover Boy (Lilia Pablo Amansec)

Here's where you can find the short story Lover Boy by Filipino writer Lilia Pablo Amansec.

It's on page 345 of The Best Philippine Short Stories of the Twentieth Century: An Anthology of Fiction in English (edited by Isagani R. Cruz)

Born in 1931, Lilia Pablo Amansec has won several Palanca awards for Short Story. Lover Boy was first published in Solidarity (1965), and won a Palanca First Prize. It contains many stories within stories, and if Scheherazade were male, this would be his story.

Here's what the writer inscribed in our copy of the anthology:

To Manuel and Angel,

Much travel in body and mind for fulfillment and happiness.

-- Lilia Pablo Amansec