<p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">In his collection of short stories, author Yugel Losorata permits us to own his stories after we've read them using our own prism to understand, to appreciate, to be beguiled by his imagineered literary creations.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">He wrote this collection of 18 stories while finishing a novel, taking care of a family amidst an egregious pandemic, and perhaps missing performing with his band songs about love, loss, heartbreak, dreams and foibles.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Rhythm and Bruise opens with 'Open 25 Years,' a gripping story based on a fire that burned a nightclub where over a hundred people perished - because the door was closed.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'Two Letters' is about a father, a son, and a president of a country.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'True or False' is about the rabid religiousness of a believer-wife, a dead husband, an old friend and a charismatic cult leader.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'The Band That Never Was' is a tale about a college band, a potential hit song, a manager with the "freakish smile" who had the drummer rolled out of the band and someone gets killed.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'Forty Days' is about two people who met at a hospital and got into a conversation and went separate ways to attend two separate 40-day rituals.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">These are just a few of the fictional short stories in the collection - created and bred in the mind of Yugel Losorata.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Fictional but always personal.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Find your rhythm and get bruised. Maybe and just maybe, you will stop for a while and live - and begin to thrive.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">(From the FOREWORD By Dr. BOY ABUNDA)</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">The Philippines' King Of Talk</span></p>