W-A-T-H

For a six-year-old who can’t spell, there are few things as frightening as an English exam in a Singaporean primary school: a classroom silent…

In which I arrive, and promptly want to leave.

[an excerpt from a dream I had last night]

Colón

“On far horizon of wide water, dark creatures rise in shadow against the light of the rising…

A Fundamental Problem

The Chinese philosophy of natural dualities is a classic instance of prescribed stupidity and induced intelligence far…

On the Plaza Saint-Hubert

a flâneurial vignette

Godzilla gets shrunken down to human height and is taken in by a Japanese family.

2013 / 362

“Okay kids, everyone get round the kitchen table, it’s faaamily game niiight!” yelled Imoshuri in his booming nineties game show host voice. He…

An Easy Escape

Why we go out after finals

A liquid savior shakes her body loose, hair flipping over to swat and stick in the sweat of bodies closing in. He swallows her breath and blows it round the dance floor with a slide and a shuffle and a smooth-talking style. Latched…

Forgetting to Sleep.

A flash fiction fable.

Lakes like Blue Whales 

A sequel to Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants

Wolves and Prey

A love story

What madness can proclaim this righteousness on those loved? What seething…