Okaka-Okaka finds it hard to find friends he's compatible with until his mother sends him to school.

How to Traverse Terra Incognita is Dean Francis Alfar's second collection of speculative fiction. These short stories draw from the traditions of fantasy, science fiction, and horror: a man recreates a country for his queen, fandom turns dangerous for a writer, toys attempt to escape their sad circumstances, and a door into the realm of the gods appears.

Relates how Maria, the nymph who lived on beautiful Mount Makiling, came to put a curse on the people who venerated her.

"Groyon's familiarity with the Bacolod matrix of manner--surreally rich scions, weird personalities, outrageously decadent lifestyles--has endowed him with the rich material to mine and/or undermine for his fiction." --Alfred A. Yuson