In these ten stories, one of the Cebu’s modern writers explores the limits of faith, memory and love, in an astonishing variety of ways. A boy dismisses a warning about the fearsome crab. A student turns rebel and plans to leave his friend a fortune. A horse is given away to feed an infantry division. A young man discovers beauty under the sea. In a photograph, a man finds his family. These scenarios of life are told with such down-to-earth beauty that Men at Sea and other stories id guaranteed to delight the Philippine reading public.