Pakinggan Pilipinas, which recently celebrated its first birthday, continues to place Philippine stories on the podfiction map. For July, they’ve released an audio rendition of “New Toy” by Joseph Anthony Montecillo, which was published in Philippine Speculative Fiction volume V. Joseph is a shining example that it is never too late to become a writer [/sarcasm]. The youngest contributor in PSFv (and PSFVI as well), “New Toy” is a horror story that, like some of the most effective stories in that genre, chills because at some level, it could happen… and maybe already has, somewhere in the world. The story is narrated by copywriter and bookworm J.T. Tirona.
