Cedric's works have previously been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 9, Terrors Unimagined, and Flash Fiction Magazine. He is currently living in Manila with his wife.His debut novel, "The Replication Game," is out now.

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The Replication Game

Eight strangers wake up trapped in a house, the participants of a sinister social experiment. Seven of them are humans, but one is an android- a 'Humarion,' lifelike and indistinguishable from the other participants in every conceivable way. Their goal: identify who among them is the Humarion and destroy it.Just one warning: "Any human deaths that occur over the course of the game are, regrettably, final."

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The Potion Shop

Some people might have called the shop dark and dingy, and its location—tucked away in a corner of the city’s rougher neighborhoods, where the cobblestone streets teemed with petty thieves—didn’t help, either. Still, the potion shop worked well for people who preferred not to hang around large crowds.A short story, published in Flash Fiction Magazine 2018.

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The Urchins

Marco was thinking about the massive pair of glass eyes that gave him nightmares. The thought distracted him so much that the ball almost sailed past his head into the goal. When he registered it flying toward him, though, he managed to stick his hand out and slap it away at the last second, prompting a chorus of cheers from his team. He chuckled and shook his head to clear his mind, trying to re-focus on the game in front of him.A short story, published in Flash Fiction Magazine 2019.

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