sampaguita

Sampaguita Pitch
by Augustine Martinez

The Manila Projects, 1998.

14-year-old Clara Marie, an amazing beauty with ashen skin and deep black eyes, her splendor recalling a bloodline arisen from the Spanish invaders of old, always knew she didn’t have a choice – Her pimp for a uncle would one day force her into a life of prostitution. Already he has her working like he did her mother, giving her a taste of the life he plans for her by letting men into her room and having Clara give them hand jobs and, sometimes, even perform oral sex.

She’s resigned, given into the idea that her life will turn out like her mother’s, who was killed by a deranged john ten years before. But before she enters into that life, she wants one epic love story with Isagani, the handsome, educated, rich boy, whose father owns half the apartment buildings in the projects, and whom she’s been secretly in love with since she was five. She conspires giving away her first kiss to him, and having him take her virginity before someone else buys it from her uncle.

She wants her one magical moment; her first time to be special. And after that, the rest of her life, cruel, violent and destitute like that of all Manila prostitutes, can finally happen.

character design: clara marie / "clang"

character design: isagani

chracter design: tito pearly

designs by nicholas trinidad

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