Most literary critics agree that it was in the field of the short story that Filipino writers in English quickly began to excel. Leopoldo Yabes referred to its “remarkable, almost phenomenal growth…” (1975a, xix) and Pura Santillan – Castrence noted, “The remarkable feat of some of the contributors is the quickness with which they produced works in a language entirely foreign to them…” (1967 – 548)