Sheltered from the storm

“Desde el extremo de la tierra clamaré a ti; cuando mi corazón desmayare. Lévame a la roca que es más alta que yo, porque tú has sido mi refugio y torre fuerte delante del enemigo." — Salmo 61:2-3

M. Y. Valencia Parroquín’s Oficial Site


The Project Behind the Stories


One Home. One pursuit.

Stories begin in different places.

Some begin with adventure.

Others with loss.

Some with questions that refuse to leave.

Ours began with a question that quietly found its way into every page we wrote:

What do we do with the kind of pain that changes us?

Not how we escape it.

Not how we ignore it.

But how we go through it and out into a new day, impossible as it may seem—what becomes possible after it.

Every story, every reflection, and every project found here grows from that same search.

Some are told through fiction.

Some through personal reflections.

Some remain in their original language.

Others continue their journey through translation.

Together, they form different expressions of the same pursuit.

Today, that pursuit continues through Protegida de la Tormenta SFTS, the Editorial Home of Memoirs of the Living, Sheltered From The Storm, and a growing body of bilingual work that continues to expand.

And if there is one truth that quietly remains after every page, every question, and every journey, perhaps it is this:

Now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.


Explore the Project

📖 Memoirs of the Living

A fantasy saga where memory, hope, restoration, and the unseen battle between light and darkness converge into one continuing story.

Begin with Swept Far, the first installment of the series, and discover the world that first began as Serie Vivos.

Explore the Books


🌩️ Sheltered From The Storm

A different voice of the same journey.

Reflections, essays, creative notes, and the ongoing journey behind the stories, told across both English and Spanish.

A place where fiction and lived experience quietly meet.

Visit The Story Behind SFTS

Visit House on a Hill


🕊️ Protegida de la Tormenta

El recorrido original, tal como fue escrito.

The place where the journey first unfolded, preserved in its original language through blog posts, reflections, and the path that gave birth to everything that followed.

Leer en SFTS

Serie Vivos: Where it all began