Collection of short stories depicting Philippine lores, characters, adventures and misadventures. Love is the predominating theme of the stories portrayed in many different ways. Ten of the stories were written by the son, Percival Campoamor Cruz, a more modern expression of the themes explored by the father, Alberto Segismundo Cruz, in the '50s up to the '70s. Percival's stories touch on environmental and political disaster in a Spratley Island- like locale, failures and successes of Filipinos who chose to live in foreign lands, the poor people's helplessness, and timely issues like gay marriage. The eleven stories of Alberto that first came out in weekly literary magazines, such as, Liwayway, Bulaklak, Kislap, Tagumpay, Aliwan, Silahis - publication icons in the Philippines, dwell on the timlessness of honesty, honor, respect for tradition, purity of love, surmounting life's challenges. The stories, more than anything, keep for posterity the Tagalog Language's beautiful prose and vocabulary now threatened to extinction due to lack of use.