On the book's cover, National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera cautions the reader to "Accept that the author in front of you is consciously being insane so you don't have to go looking for anything as boring as sanity.

"ang tao bilang makakalimutin / man as forgetful" Ultraviolins is considered the first Filipino post-modern book of short stories.

Works of note include Roland Tolentino's Microfiction, Mykel Andrada's Rizal In Dapitan, Allan Derain's Iskrapbuk, Eros Atalia's Suicide Manual, Norman Wilwayco's How I Fixed My Hair After A Rather Long Journey, Edgar Samar's Eight Spirits Of The Fall, and Mes de Guzman's Rancho Dyango.

"Dedbol" is a series of disjointed dagli about random people — a serial killer, some kidnappers, a four-piece band, and girls on a shower party — converging for a split second in the Divine Intersection before splitting up again to conclude their narratives, borrowing Guillermo Arriaga’s narrative conceit from the seminal McOndo movie Amores perros, only lacking the social and political implications of the original.

"Ang Ipis Sa Loob ng Basurahan" is a post-Kafka humanized depiction of a cockroach stuck inside a trash can deciding to build a home for itself in the interim before its expected escape and sudden death by way of slipper-squashing.

F. Sionil Jose, National Artist for Literature, calls the book "refreshingly original, irreverent, even kinky - a spicy read on any humdrum day.

"[5] The Varsitarian,[6] however, commends Ultraviolins as "a raw but genuine attempt to break through the normal conventions of short stories and poems and acts as a fluent introduction to comical postmodernism.