Smoke Gets in your Eyes

The first issue of the Filipino online magazine Usok is now up and ready for your perusal, so sayeth the e-publisher RocketKapre.

And for your reading pleasure, you can get stories by the doughty Kenneth Yu (of the Digest of Philippine Genre Stories), the missing chiles samaniego, the effervescent Crystal Koo, the quintessential Celestine Trinidad, and omnni-present Yvette Tan.

In particular, I love the cover art courtesy of Kevin Lapeña with its rendition of a jeepney and the scientific and mythological passengers riding in it.

Don't you just love the energizing power of the Internetz?