• QUAINT

    Isa Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 The quaint little town rested atop a quaint little cliff that hung over a quaint little lake, and the quaint little residents of said quaint little town often took to the quaint little lake for a quaint little swim, with the boldest of the Quaints (which was what they…

  • Garuda

    Tarini Tilve Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 Lifting the curtain over the entrance, Raunak emerged from the hut and into the pre-dawn darkness that greeted him daily. His eyes, looking through a filter of dust, took in the slew of brown huts amongst the gray plants. A fence with barbed wires ran down the perimeter…

  • The Road

    Jovan Ang Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 Tonight my body is drawn on the asphalt like crime-scene chalk. I inhale the whispers from the greenery rendered victim to the spilled moonlight. A while ago I devoted myself to lying down on this path—a quiet, winding road adjacent to an army camp where I can escape…

  • (∞)

    Manus Wong Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 Manus Wong is a second-year English Literature major at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of mar/gins, a NUS student-run literary journal. In his freshman year, he founded Residential College 4’s literary club, OrcaStories, wherein he and his team published the college’s inaugural…

  • Hierarchy of Heaven

    Andrew Devadason Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 I am told that power lies beneath the surface. That the open loop of the Circle Line is a sigil charging as it waits for its circuit to be completed; that the empty node where the Downtown Line curves back over itself is the point where two ley…

  • Enclosure: Vanitas

    Pictures taken by the artist (Bench at Gardens By The Bay and Kelvin Lim Fun Kit’s ‘An Enclosure For A Swing’), royalty-free images from Pexels (antelope skull, apples and barren land) Bryce Sng Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 Bryce Sng is currently an English undergraduate at Nanyang Technological University. When he is not reading or…