Kuya Ed (vignette)

Puspin (Tagalog, street cat), Paniqui Philippines. Kuya Ed lived between two high hollowblock walls. In the morning, he would pull apart the sliding glass doors and pull apart the mosquito screens and rattle the sliding bolt free and push the iron latticework gates open with a groan and let the smells of rain and hibiscus and mango wash over his face. Thus he would greet the day. Sunrise had already been greeted by the fighting cocks next door, though with the whoosh of the single room air conditioner and the eeeee of his tinnitus and his 19 years in the provinces, he hadn't heard most of the cockadoodle-dos, not consciously. Ché had made eggs over easy and toast and cocina and had left the old green plate for him under a paper towel on the counter. The yolks were large and glistening and orange. He liked that. It reminded him that the eggs had been red and the chickens who'd laid them were colorful and thus his life was better here than back home, where everything was white. The…

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