• A Fire in the Soul

    "You are the Chosen One." The Chosen One. To this very day, those words echo through my consciousness whenever I look at the other mountains surrounding my home. I live in Himalay, which had the ...

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    A Fire in the Soul
  • Foodcourt

    He sits on the mocha-brown wood and watches the angst-ridden crowd sweep by like the dust he used to sweep when the back still held. (There is no end to them.) He stays ...

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    Foodcourt
  • A Fat Girl Thing

    hanging over a hunk of ham, of flesh a slice of the delicatessen in my fever dreams slices, and chunks ripples of sinfully sweet saccharine and corn dripping and my senses climax ...

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    A Fat Girl Thing
  • The Voyage

    Cutting through waves A swath of foam; Green-gray curdles Trail underfoot. A raft of makeshift hopes, Adrift for days And aimless: Steered blindly on. Beyond the mist, Cobbles and ...

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    The Voyage

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Shirley Siaton-Parabia is an award-winning author in English, Filipino and Hiligaynon. She is a literary and journalism honors recipient of the Stevan Javellana Foundation, Philippine Information Agency, and West Visayas State University. Her essays, fiction and poetry have been published in The Philippine Star, Panay News, Daily Informer, MOD Magazine and Glitter Magazine. Her plays have been staged at the University of the Philippines-Visayas.

Based in Muscat with her family, Shirley is a black belt in Shotokan Karate, an international certified fitness coach, and an avid powerlifter.

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