Sirena’s Song

Sirena's Song, our second anthology, focuses on transformation, sea creatures, and features ocean-dwelling cryptids, and the voyages we jointly take across the islands. Stories and poems investigate the bayanihan required for collaborations and calculated interactions between people who live on land and our kinfolk under the seas.

The stories of the Sirena explore humanity's needs, desires, imaginations, and intentions and are of and pertaining to the ocean, the sea, the islets and bays, the shores, and the rivers-here and in alternate universes-where water-creatures might exist.

DILIM is not darkness: it exists between light and shadow to illuminate hidden realms of the archipelago.

Table of Contents:

Twenty Pesos Per KCal, by Camilla Andrea

Sa Kabilugan Ng Buwan, Maika Carrillo

Fresh Siyokoy, Gio Nabatar

Dalangpan, Braille

Bigger Beasts, Mary Poirier

Mga Oyayi mula Silanganan, Icia Encinas

Recording #21: Testimony of Child Borne of Kataw-Human Relations, Trisha Matabalan

The Water Woman Of Macabebe, C. G. Hughes

Ano’ng Ginagawa ng Mga Tao Sa Gitna ng Dagat?, J.J.S. Cleofas

To The Moon and Back and Then Some, Michelle Chadwell

Solude, A.J. Crame

Breakwater Pier, Gwen Nearie

Siren Land, Orange, The Salmon Mermaid Princess and the Shoplifter, tinik excavation, and

Payatot, Eunice-Grace Domingo