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…

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…

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…

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…

Christian Yeo Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 **  The fluorescent lights stabbed at Musa’s eyes. Each ceiling light was manageable, a shard of malformed white and a penumbra that seemed to peel away in intensity, dissipating at the edges. All of the lights together—one after another, overlapping rank and file—seemed instead malevolent. The long hallway reminded him…