• Green

    Andrew Kirkrose Devadason Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 The sun shines differently in Lim Chu Kang, she told me. She didn’t say that we wouldn’t be bothered there—because the estate was abandoned, because it was between military exercises, because the people who thought it was interestingly haunted had better things to do than skip school…

  • Moss

    Michele Lim Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 Yuxian first found the moss on the back of her bed post. She had been trying to move her bed from one end of her room to the other, thinking that a change of scenery, however small, might do something for her mental health. But all she gained…

  • Peace Is A Woman Whose Head Is A Roof

    Yeo Wei Wei Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 Auntie Bebe bathed the old-fashioned way using a bucket and ladle. There was a modern shower in her bathroom but she never used it. Before her husband passed away, he offered many times to have the shower removed, but each time Auntie Bebe retorted: ‘What about the…

  • The Ship

    Kevin Martens Wong Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 It is night. Lest one forget, it is almost always night when it arrives, everywhere in the multiverse, everywhere else but on one, quickly tilting side of the Earth; but also only somewhat dark, very rarely stormy. (How hard it is, remember, for things to land safely…

  • Rise & Fall of the Scourge of Malice

    Meihan Boey Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 I was born in 1595, because the Earl of Cumberland did not want to pay Queen Elizabeth I for one of her ships. It was Queen Elizabeth who named me, when George Clifford (that is my owner, the Earl of Cumberland), like the overbearing, arse-licking, obnoxious fop he…