Author: Sade Andria Zabala

Sade Andria Zabala is a twenty-four-year-old Filipina surfer and nomad currently residing in Denmark. She has self-published one collection of poems called Coffee and Cigarettes and has appeared on literary sites/publications such as The Chapess Zine, Berlin Artparasites, The Thought Catalog, The Rising Phoenix Review, The Undertow Review, Grammarly, and more. The poem above is from her second book, War Songs, to be released September 8, 2015. In her spare time she likes to eat words and drink sunlight. You can reach her at SurfAndWrite.Tumblr.com.

Phoenix by Sade Andria Zabala

Posted on Jan 13, 2016Feb 28, 2019 by Sade Andria Zabala

Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else. Start with the hands. The feeble way they shake holding your morning coffee, the way they did his dishes, his laundry, so willingly. How they itch from the want of undressing his memory. All lonely. All empty – you. Cut them off. […]

Modern Lit by Sade Andria Zabala

Posted on Nov 3, 2015Feb 28, 2019 by Sade Andria Zabala

I am not a magazine people mindlessly flip through when they’re bored. I am literature. I am art. I am stories with a spine. I am the book you pick up but never buy. I am the book you open but never finish to read and that’s okay. I write for myself anyway. […]

For All the Girls with Messy Hearts, and to the Men Whose Skin Have Tasted Mine by Sade Andria Zabala

Posted on Sep 3, 2015Feb 28, 2019 by Sade Andria Zabala

Let’s be honest here — I am not the girl men fall in love with. I am the girl that men want to fuck. I am a conquest. A prize. A show. I could count on five hundred fingers the number of people that have professed, “I like you. You’re different. You’re an interesting girl.” […]