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THE WRATH OF KANLA

by: AGUSTIN P. BAQUEREZA JR., LPT, MAEd

Prologue

In the 21st century Negros births supernaturally Kanla, a giant life-source goddess who dwells in Mt. Canlaon, giving her the sole power to oversee, rule, and protect every creature, great or small, impossible of her occult, including the bodies of water and the lushes.

Kanla, the mother of all creatures in Negros island, so trusting of her stewards, her people, once committed to their duties of maintaining the balance among themselves, animals, and plants in the island under their care, one day, awakens from her deep sleep, by an increasing pain she’d been feeling in her slumber, and when she opens her eyes, she glints to a sight of a burning Mandalagan and Silay forests and as she gulps, unquenches her, the draining and staining Binalbagan and Ilog rivers.

As she continues gleaning over her creations, her eyes further catch the diminishing greens of Bacolod, Bago, and Hinigaran and the thinning schools of fishes in Sagay, Cadiz, Himamaylan, and Sipalay.

On top of that, Kanla noticed the miserable plight of the dumpsites across the island, and the man-made marine biodiversity destructions in Dumaguete and the Maricalum mines that turned the lush of Sipalay into a barren land.

She then closes her eyes, tears rush driven by a heart so dense, as she…

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