Below are samples of Shirley Siaton‘s published articles. These are listed by type of literary work.
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Essays
- Coffee Break
Published: N/A
A tribute to coffee, above anything else, and submitted as a piece to compete for a spot on being one of the 70 delegates to the Ayala Young Leaders Congress 2000
Fiction
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A Fire in the Soul
Published: Estudyante Network Magazine, January 2000
A young woman named Uryana Sangkilat faces her destiny and the greatest foe of her people -
Dancing in the Rain
Published: The Accounts Initial Public Offerings 1999 (Literary Folio)
A love story between the perfect killer and the perfect girl
Poetry
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A Fat Girl Thing
Published: The Accounts Initial Public Offerings 1999 (Literary Folio)
A fat girl on thinner, prettier girls, her own body and sexuality -
Disruption
Published: The Accounts Initial Public Offerings 2000 (Literary Folio)
Subversive romance in the new millennium -
Foodcourt
Published: The Philippine Star, 18 September 1998
The passage of cruel time -
Fudge
Published: The Philippine Star, 24 October 1997
For unwed teenage mothers who had the courage not to abort -
Graduation Day
Published: The Philippine Star, 12 April 1997
Letting go is more like it -
Jihad
Published: The Accounts Initial Public Offerings 1999 (Literary Folio)
“Religious war,” Sunday-morning sacrifices and struggles -
Other
Published: The Philippine Star, 13 November 1998
Unrequited and pained -
Shoes
Published: The Philippine Star, 19 July 1997
The ever-changing soul, um, sole -
Stone
Published: The Philippine Star, 3 May 1997
A memory left untreasured, unremembered -
The Voyage
Published: The Accounts, August-October 1997 Magazine
Written while watching fishing boats and barges; after a mosquito-laden night -
Who Cares?
Published: The Philippine Star, 15 August 1997
Living against the odds
Reviews
- Lizard: Organized Madness
Published: Estudyante Network Magazine, January 2000
A glance at Lizard, a collection of six short stories by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto