Guernica Magazine

Still Life

They say we are sinking, but the sea has spat out the bones of our villages a thousand and one times.

This seventeen-year-old is now staying in a rehabilitation house in Leyte province in the Visayas, Philippines, with three hundred other women who became victims of human trafficking in the Visayas region after Typhoon Haiyan destroyed much of Samar and Leyte provinces. She ran away from home at age 15 after being sexually assaulted by her father; she was then abducted, in cooperation with the subject and the rehabilitation house.

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